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Vision 2020 Kano report – Augustine Etoh and Thomas Achi

Posted on : 30-06-2010 | By : admin | In : Uncategorized

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What changes have taken place in your hospital since the project started?

As a result of the link between your hospital and ours, some positive changes have taken place in our hospital.

  1. Our hospital now has a paediatric outpatient and surgical (theatre) days
  2. We now have standard and acceptable paediatric visual acuity equipment.
  3. Two staff (Augustine Etoh and Thomas Achi) of ECWA Eye Hospital, Kano, Nigeria, have been receiving short term training on proper squint and visual acuity assessment and proper use of the slit lamp for the examination of patients.

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