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Right to Sight currently has three projects in Rwanda
1. National Eye Care Plan
Current Status
• In March 2008 RTS is coordinating a workshop with key organizations and govenment to guide development of a new national eye care plan.
• Those involved include Dr. Innocent (Minister of State for Health), the National Blindness Coordinator, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) currently working in eye care and experts from RTS collaborating organizations, Aravind/LAICO and L.V. Prasad
RTS Objectives
• To establish a new national eye care plan.
• To agree upon roles and responsibilities for each of the NGO’s in country.
• To more than triple the Cataract surgical rate to 10,000 per annum by 2010.
2. Central Hospital – Kigali
Current Status
• RTS has identified Central Hospital as a collaborating partner with great potential and a dedicated ophthalmologist.
• RTS will work with Central Hospital to enhance the capacity of the unit, transforming it into a high-volume and high-quality eye care clinic.
RTS Objectives
• To expand the training of all existing staff at the hospital.
• To build the Cataract surgical capacity to 3,000 and out-patient visits to 30,000 per annum.
• To establish the hospital as a referral centre for Rwanda.
3. Partners in Health (PiH)
Current Status
• Partners in Health & the Clinton Foundation are developing model district health care services at Rwinkwavu, in Eastern Rwanda.
• RTS will bring eye care services to a PIH hospital without an eye care clinic.
• RTS will work with PIH to conduct a needs assessment for the hospital in Spring 2008.
RTS Objectives
• To train primary health workers in the awareness and identification of eye diseases in the district.
• To establish cataract operations and refraction at the hospital.
• To achieve 2,500 cataract operations and 20,000 outpatient visits in the
district in the year 2009.
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