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Zithulele Hospital Partnership
Mercy Ships begins Eye Care Partnership with Rural Hospital: Mercy Ships Southern Africa are embarking on an eye care partnership with the Zithulele Mission Hospital in Rural Eastern Cape.
The outreach, which forms part of the ongoing Mercy Vision Programme South Africa,plans to deliver a comprehensive screening programme using a mobile screening unit. This unit will go from village to village, and where necessary, hut to hut, to locate people with eye care needs, and either offer them immediate treatment, or refer them to Zithulele hospital, or Mthatha hospital for further specialised treatment. John Rae, National Director of Mercy Ships Southern Africa states' "The Outreach will be phased in over 3 years, and is designed to offer much needed support to the Eastern Cape Department of Health to meet the Vision 20/20 objectives. We are delighted to play a small but important role in helping"
Mercy Ships Southern Africa are working with the Eastern Cape Department of Health on establishing a Memorandum of Understanding to ensure complete effectiveness of the programme, which when completed at Zithulele, can be replicated at other rural centres in the Eastern Cape and the rest of South Africa. |
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Optometrist Training
Optometrists from the Eastern Cape trained on board the Africa Mercy: Four Eastern Cape Optometrists were screened and selected to spend time on our ship, and we are pleased to report that all four were excited to return to South Africa and apply the skills and processes they had been taught on the ship into their day to day activities working among the poor in the Eastern Cape. Each of them has implemented significant changes to improve the productivity of screening.
Mr. Retshidisitswe Khalatha serves at the Butterworth Hospital in the Eastern Cape and serves a very wide geographical area screening patients with eye problems.
Mr. Monwabisi Nonkula serves at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital in Umtata in the Eastern Cape. It is a very busy hospital serving over 2 million of the poorest people in South Africa.
Although Miss Ingrid Marais works in a private optometrist practice, she gives 1 day a week of her time screening patients for the Government hospital in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. The improved screening activities allowed her to present an increased number of patients to the Government Ophthalmologists she refers patients to.
Mr Arthur Ndori works at the Port Elizabeth Provincial Hospital and serves the communities surrounding the city. Arthur has also benefited from the training he received and has modified his previous methods to ensure greater productivity.
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