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Surgeon training cannot happen in Africa unless the hospital has a good flow of patients for training. African patients are fearful of traditional poor outcomes and will only attend hospitals if they know of good results. The key to attracting high volumes of patients is excellent post-operative vision results. The first step is to provide good quality facilities (equipment and support staff) for the surgeon to deliver good surgery, then to up-skill the surgeon with the latest training techniques, and then finally to market the facilities and results to the villages and offer to rpovide screening, patient transport facilities and accomodation.
As an expert management consultant in eye-care systems Right to Sight cover four consultancy areas:
A) Hospital capacity building and management training for economic sustainability:
1. Capacity build existing eye surgery units (€50,000).
2. Develop new eye care units in existing general hospitals (€100,000 – €500,000).
3. Develop new eye hospitals in partnership with local organisations (€1million – €2million).
4. Surgeon training centers where the training fees generate income for the hospital (€100,000 in an existing sustainable hospital).
B) Surgeon training and support
1. Surgeon scholarships in Right to Sight training centers (€5,000).
2. Equipment post training, capacity build surgeon’s own hospital.
3. Specialty training and mentorship (from €1,000 for rapid surgery training scholarship to €50,000 for full capacity building).
C) Research, Innovation, Continuing Medical Education
Internet linked international collegiality (scholarships, internet and equipment for €1,000 to teleconferencing centers for €50,000).
Right to Sight has an extensive network of highly regarded world experts in various ophthalmology specialities who are facilitating major research initiatives.
D) Rapid response cataract and glaucoma camps
These camps treat the backlog of blind patients while simultaneously training surgeons (€20 – €50 per operation, €40,000 per camp).
