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Zimbabwe has launched the National Eye Health Strategy 2021-2025 aimed at providing accessible, timely and quality eye services to the country’s citizens.
This comes as Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals, the country’s biggest referral centre, is conducting free cataract surgeries, a programme which was initially targeted at 500 surgeries but ended up taking over 1000 cases.
The major objective of the National Eye Strategy is to ensure government provides citizens with sustainable eye care services, in the process eliminating preventable blindness.
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Vice President General (Retired) Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care, speaking at the launch of the four-year strategy at Parirenyatwa on Thursday, said that government was committed to eliminate non-communicable diseases.
“The emphasis in this current strategy is five-fold, focusing on, people-centeredness, vision as a human rights issue, integration of primary eye care into primary, secondary and tertiary health care levels, workload indicators for staffing needs and, evidence-based eye health care service provision,” said Chiwenga.
World Health Organisation Country Representative Dr Alex Gasasira said the National Eye Health Strategy for Zimbabwe 2021-2025 addresses recommendations made to member states on integrated people-centred eye care by a resolution of the World Health Assembly in August 2020.
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