BY BRIEN HOLDEN VISION INSTITUTE After 9 years of running optometry training program, Asmara College of Health Sciences (now Asmara University Orotta College of Medicine and Health Sciences) in Eritrea produced the country’s first optometrists.
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Eritrea – the only country on the continent with technology that produces Intraocular lenses BY HOMMES D’AFRIQUE MAGAZINE* Q : When and how was the Fred Hollows IOL Lab created? The Fred Hollows Intraocular Laboratory-Asmara is an export oriented, high-tech pharmaceutical facility, especially designed for the production of intraocular lenses (IOLs) and related medical devices. […]
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BY TESFANEWS As 600,000 Africans goes blind every year as a result of Cataract, demands for intraocular lenses produced by the only Intraocular Lens Laboratory on the African continent shows a significant increase.
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