Accreditation is a critical process to promote safety and demonstrate the safety of a facility through its compliance with rigorous standards. The COVID-19 pandemic has made all aspects of accreditation, especially infection prevention and emergency preparedness, more relevant. Patients are now more aware of these areas of clinical practice; therefore, facilities need to deal with … Read more
VISION 2020: The Right to Sight-INDIA Knowledge Hub Presents this Webinar. The COVID–19 pandemic brought stress at multiple levels to various institutions. The health care organizations were challenged with new set of requirements and rapidly responded to the new norms. The Quality Resource Centre (QRC) team at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital (SCEH) was quick … Read more
This document titled “Comprehensive Guidelines For OPD/ IPD Services in Ophthalmology Hospitals/ Clinics Under New Normal: Living With Covid-19” is an excellent compilation of best practices to contain the spread of COVID-19 in a healthcare facility in general and eye care facility in particular. These comprehensive set of guidelines, based on several references from across … Read more
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the delay or cancellation of tens of thousands of non-emergent essential surgeries. Now that many countries have flattened their COVID curves and increased their health system capacity to address COVID with improved staffing, infection control, testing, and PPE supplies, hospitals are planning on restarting non-emergent essential surgery. Through this webinar, … Read more
This webinar will discuss the role of communication with patients and their families and how it impacts every stage of ophthalmic care. It will describe easy to adapt strategies for optimizing communication and tools that Orbis has developed to assist practitioners in this task. Special attention will be paid to how the current COVID-19 pandemic … Read more
A 56-year-old female patient was seen by live “virtual visit” telemedicine during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic quarantine restrictions. She had a two-year history of gradual onset diplopia and had been seen by several eye care providers including an optometrist, an ophthalmologist and a neuro-ophthalmologist. Other than the diplopia, she denied any visual changes, but she … Read more
The efforts of the National Program for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment, towards implementation of the program is also an important consideration in order not to lose momentum that has been gained painstakingly over the decades. This presentation shall present directions to be taken for the country going forward in the National Program. Lecturer: … Read more
As a Clinician and Administrator what is the plan to guide the systems and processes and to bring a cultural shift within the hospital team to manage eye health services in Institutions. If we plan well, we shall be able to overcome this situation successfully. Lecturer: Dr. Umang Mathur, Executive Director and Cornea Consultant, SCEH, … Read more
People with disabilities need much more support than others in the face of a pandemic as they are a very diverse group. They experience different hardships in accessing information on prevention and risk of infection. Facilities and institutions need to show a humane response in an equitable manner with affirmative action for people with disabilities … Read more