ICEE BOARD

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Eyecare Provision inCoastal Rural Sri Lanka
From Service Delivery to Sustainable Development
Jane Kierath, Judith Stern, Gerhard
Schlenther,Tricia Keys, Nina Tahhan, Brian
Layland,Amanda Davis, S May Ho, Brien A Holden

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ICEE Strategy

• Service Delivery
• Interim curative services
• Clearing the backlog
• Building professional relationships

• Service Development
• Eyecare Training
• Eyecare Infrastructure
• Integration

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Training
After 3 months tsunami-related service delivery

• Formal ICEE-training for Sri Lankan health
  workers commenced

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Mid-Level Eyecare Personnel

• Sri Lanka training
• Refract, prescribe dispense spectacles
• Primary eyecare examination treatment
• Recognise more complex disease refer

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Training Summary

• 15 Sri Lankan health workers have received ICEE
  training.
  
• 8 of these Optometric Technicians are now
  independently working in their communities.

• Equipment reference materials have been
  provided.
  
• Mentoring support from ICEE is ongoing.

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ICEE in Sri Lanka

• 8 independent ICEE-trained Optometric
  Technicians
  
• 5 in Northern Sri Lanka
• 3 are in Eastern Sri Lanka
• Hill Country next focus area.

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Trainee Outcomes
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Sriram SelvarajahSri
This good work. This is the work I want to do
. I want to test eyes. I want to make
people see.
Will you teach me?
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The ICEE Solution
Trained Eyecare Personnel

People Who Can See
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Sri Lanka Towards 2020
Self-sustaining comprehensive eyecare system
Ministry of Health People of Sri Lanka
assists

Integrated with existing national healthcare
ParticipatoryPlanning
SERVICE DELIVERY Interim Curative Services
TRAINING Identify train Sri Lankan personnel at
all levels of eyecare
INFRASTRUCTURE Low cost spectacles Equipment Ma
nagement / support systems
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ICEE Sri Lanka
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Thank You

• Skills, time and efforts of
• Sri Lankan Optometric Technicians
• Sri Lankan partner NGOs
• ICEE staff
• Institute for Eye Research staff
• Vision CRC Australia staff

Your generous support has made this possible.