Proyecto Visión

Proyecto Visión has built the School for OMAS to train local staff in opthalmic nursing (OMA Opthalmic Medical Assistant ) and also as trachoma and cataract surgeons (Cataract Surgeon) .The School is within the premises of Qwiha Hospital . Qwiha, which is close to Mekelle, houses University hospitals and schools .
Since it opened in 2008 ,the School has trained around one hundred OMAs and Cataract Surgeons who carry out their task in the various woredas (districts) of Tigray.
The health authorities of Tigray are now in charge of the Qwiha School of OMAs.

St.Louise Eye Clinic’s teams travel constantly to villages and schools in Tigray to provide training for the prevention of eye health problems for the neediest population. Proyecto Visión has provided the clinic’s teams with two all terrain vehicles to enable easy access to these remote areas.
Proyecto Visión has also drilled wáter wells and paths of access to them. Water is basic in helping in the prevention of trachoma , an eye disease which was endemic in the area. The wells are in full working order.

 

Proyecto Visión has built the Opthalmological Hospital within the Qwiha General Hospital grounds. Tigray’s public health services carry out and concentrate their eye care services in this Hospital.
Proyecto Visión has also equipped and maintained the opthalmic operating theatre at Adigrat hospital. When our teams travel to Adigrat they perform the most complex surgeries , working together with the public health service opthalmologists-

 

Proyecto Visión, through St.Louise Eye Clinic in Mekelle is in charge of taking care of the ocular health of approximately one fourth of the population of Tigray : primary care, cataracts, trachoma, squints, refraction tests, supplying eye glasses…
Proyecto Visión finances the clinic’s upkeep , the maintenance of its two operating theatres, provides medication and surgical equipment. Proyecto Visión’s teams perform surgeries the clinic and are responsable for its medical management.