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 system that includes eye care they can fund with their own resources.

Charity does not equal development.

Principles

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

From Control to Elimination

Focus on the root causes of disease

Changing Panoramas

Clean Faces

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 patient volume.

Improved hospital productivity.

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.

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

and progress, without undermining institutional development.