World Health Assembly resolutions
Highlights and legacy of VISION 2020
Meet our eye care team.
Your eye health is top priority.
The team of professionals throughout the island collaborates to give you the best care possible at each of the public and private eye health centres. We actively work to recruit diverse team members and foster a supportive, positive environment where every individual feels respected and has an equal opportunity.
Education about preserving and advancing good vision is one of the primary eye care services offered to patients. completing a thorough evaluation of the visual system and screening for potentially asymptomatic eye illnesses and ailments that influence vision.
Our Approach on Diabetic Prevention
We commit to working with each other, and with others to advance our common mission. We recognize that only by working with each other and with others can our collective vision be realized. This programme will enable all parties and individuals involved in combating blindness to work in a focused and coordinated way to achieve the common goal of eliminating preventable and treatable blindness.
What are the steps of eye screening for diabetic eye disease?
Vision checking: Refraction (checking to see whether vision can be improved with spectacles ) Dilated fundus examination (examining the back of your eye to look for diabetic retinopathy changes…
Basic Protective Measures Against the Diabetes
Even if you are diabetic you can help your family, especially your children to avoid diabetes and it’s complications. If you are an offspring of a diabetic parent you…
How Can Low Vision Affect Your Eyes?
What Is Low Vision? As we age, we may notice that our vision starts to deteriorate. This is why it’s important to see your eyecare professional regularly, so they…
Have an Emergency?
Possible cause /consequence -
Vascular occlusions (blocked blood vessel in the eye )
What you should do? -
Check blood pressure
Lie with head low and use your finger to do a gentle eye massage -press over closed lids while counting to 3 and release . Repeat this while transport is being arranged to see an eye surgeon.
Possible cause /consequence -
Vitreous hemorrhage
What you should do?
Arrange for an eye consultation, even if the floaters decrease in intensity
Possible cause /consequence -
Ulceration of cornea
What you should do? -
Need to have an eye consultation urgently, as there is a risk of serious infection even if the injury is trivial in diabetic patients
Possible cause /consequence -
Nerve palsy
What you should do?
Although this can be due to blocking of a small blood vessel in the nerve which resolve with time, more dangerous causes need to be excluded.
( like rupture of a dilated blood vessel in the brain, or fungal infection in the eye cavity which can spread to the brain soon)
News & Announcements
Information about various awareness, clinics and diseases carried out through our project can be obtained through this. Clicking here will take you to the blog.
What is Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) ?
When studying diabetes in relation to the nature of the eye, our project focuses more attention on this condition. Click here for more details about diabetes.
Frequently Asked Questions
Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas can no longer produce insulin or when the body cannot properly use the insulin it produces.
When insulin is not produced or used effectively, glucose levels in the blood rise (known as hyperglycemia). In the long term, high glucose levels are associated with damage to the body and malfunction of various organs and tissues.
Damage to the optic nerve, which results in loss of visual field, is the cause of the chronic, progressive eye illness known as glaucoma.
Optic nerve damage from glaucoma affects your eye. It often occurs when fluid accumulates and the pressure inside the eye rises.
The pancreas produces the hormone insulin, which functions as a key to allow glucose from food to enter the body’s cells where it may be used to make energy. All foods containing carbohydrates are converted to glucose in the blood. Insulin facilitates the uptake of glucose by cells.
The INS gene in humans encodes insulin, a peptide hormone generated by beta cells of the pancreatic islets.
Retina is the inner most layer of the eye ball which contains the system of absorbing light and producing light stimuli which then converges on the optic nerve to be transmitted to the brain. Retina is a highly metabolically active tissue consuming a large amount of Oxygen. So it has a rich vascular supply in health.
In diabetes the long term exposure to high blood sugar damages the retinal capillaries. The inner layer of the capillaries, i.e the basement membrane becomes thickened leading to blockade. READ MORE
You can register with our vision2020 program by clicking the register button below and providing your information correctly. After the registration is complete, you will receive an email that the process is complete. After that, you can log in to the site using the email and password you used when you registered. You can present your problems to us through the internal forum provided by us. Please click here for register.
This internal forum is not open to the public and is only accessible to registered members. Answers to the problems posted by you will be given by our coordinators. A separate facility for sending messages to us for your private message will also be provided in the future.
