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Al-Basar Medical Team: Giving Light to Thousands of People

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY HABTOM TESFAMICHAEL | SHABAIT Parallel to the efforts being made to provide secure, affordable and quality health service, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has been working, in collaboration with partners, to provide medical assistance from friendly institutions to participate in the medical efforts of the Ministry to provide special assistance to people who need […]

Eritrea Meets V2020 Goal for Refractive Errors Human Resources

October 3, 2019TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

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.

Eritrea: The only African country Producing Intraocular Lenses

February 27, 2012October 3, 2019TesfaNews18 Comments

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.