INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

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INTERNATIONAL COUNCILOF OPHTHALMOLOGY

• G. O.H. Naumann Award 2009
• San Francisco

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Ophthalmology Training Santo Toribio de
Mogrovejo Hospital Lima, Peru
Ocular Pathology Fellowship San Francisco
Medical Center California, U.S.A.
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PERU 2008
30,000,000 inhabitants150,000 blind people
1/3 Rural Population Blindness 1
2/3 Urban Population Blindness 0.3
Total Blindness Average 0.5
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First Ocular Pathology Lab.
Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo Hospital
1966 - 1997 110 National residents 30 Foreign
residents
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Peruvian National Eye Institute Second Ocular
Pathology Lab.
1966 1997 OCULAR GLOBES 2,801
BIOPSIES 5,852 EXENTERATIONS
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• 1981 WHO Collaborating Center for Prevention of
  Blindness
• 1986 Cataract Free Zone
• Programme
• 1987 Peruvian National Eye Institute (INO)
• 1989 National Committee of Prevention of
  Blindness

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Here after.
2006 National Programme of Prevention
and Control of Blindness 2006 Guidelines of
Retinopathy of Prematurity 2006 National
Sight Day by Governmental Law 2007 National
Plan Against Cataract Blindness
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Our Strategy

• State-of-the-Art Technology
• High-income patients

Appropriate Technology Low-income patients
High Quality Surgery
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• The permanent desire of progress
  and overcoming adversity
• Team work with the allied health personnel and
  community leaders
• The authentic vocation of service
  to community

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