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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.
