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The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability Ms Patricia

The Impact of Development in Marginalised Communities: Eye Health, Productivity and Sustainability Ms Patricia Ferguson – CEO & President Dr Santosh Moses – Asst. Director Eye Health

Avoidable blindness will be eliminated when every low income country has a health care

Avoidable blindness will be eliminated when every low income country has a health care system that includes eye care they can fund with their own resources.

Charity does not equal development.

Charity does not equal development.

Principles § Focus on the root causes. § Co-investment. § Comprehensive care. § Quality.

Principles § Focus on the root causes. § Co-investment. § Comprehensive care. § Quality. § Sustainability.

From Control to Elimination

From Control to Elimination

Focus on the root causes of disease

Focus on the root causes of disease

Changing Panoramas

Changing Panoramas

Clean Faces

Clean Faces

5 years of development 17 hospital partners § Financially sustainable in their operating costs.

5 years of development 17 hospital partners § Financially sustainable in their operating costs. § More than doubled the number of patients treated. § Doubled the number of surgeries. § More than doubled the revenue of the original 41 partners.

Eye camps to hospital-based community eye health programs § Strong referral system. § Increased

Eye camps to hospital-based community eye health programs § Strong referral system. § Increased patient volume. § Improved hospital productivity.

The impact of development § Improved health status. § Improved social and economic status.

The impact of development § Improved health status. § Improved social and economic status. § Greater financial independence.

Sub-standard care is not a solution to providing health care in low income countries.

Sub-standard care is not a solution to providing health care in low income countries.

Invest development funds to play a catalytic role that will support change and progress,

Invest development funds to play a catalytic role that will support change and progress, without undermining institutional development.

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