Programme National de Lutte contre la Cécité
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| Project Name: |
Programme National de Lutte contre la Cécité |
| Project Description: |
Eye Department
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| Location: |
Central African Republic,
Bossangoa
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| Campaign: | Vision 2020 |
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| Project Information: |
In partnership with the Ministry of Health of the Central African Republic (CAR), CBM is implementing the National Blindness Prevention Program, aiming to eliminate all avoidable causes of blindness in the CAR by the year 2020. It therefore is part of the worldwide campaign Vision 2020, initiated by CBM and the World Health Organization (WHO), among others. The Program Program National de Lutte contre la Cécité is based in Bossangoa (population: 176,000) in the rural North West part of CAR, around 300 km north of the capital city Bangui. In CAR, 3% of the population is blind or disabled from visual impairment; for bilateral blindness, Onchocerciasis is the most important cause. After the partly destruction of the programs' premises during the 2003 civil war, the German Blindness Prevention Committee and CBM financed its rehabilitation in 2004. The activities of the program are since then back to normalcy, with an output of more than 1,200 eye consultations in 2005, surgeries on Cataract, Glaucoma, Trachoma and Trichiasis, and medical out-reach to the remote areas of the North-West of the country. The eye department is run by a cataract surgeon and an operating theatre nurse, both trained at CFOAC institute. |
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