Jamaica
Mandeville
As CCB-Eye Care Caribbean moves to complete refurbishing of the Eye Department in the central Jamaican Town of Mandeville, overhead theatre lights for the Surgical Suite in the Eye Department at the Mandeville Regional Hospital is now being cleared through Jamaica Customs.
It is anticipated that clearance and installation will be completed by end of April. Surgical supplies sufficient to support more than a thousand cataract and other surgeries (were ordered by CCB-Eye Care Caribbean) the supplies should be cleared and delivered to the Eye Department early in May.
Meanwhile, a Senior Nurse from Mandeville will be going to Dominica to participate in an intense 6-week Eye Theatre Management Course.
This is all part of preparing for the start of expanded Surgical Services at the Eye Department. All essential preparations are near completion, which will convert a mere building into a place where thousands of Jamaicans will have their sight restored.
2013 Caribbean Vision 2020 Meeting to be held in Kingston, Jamaica in December
This will be the 3rd annual gathering of Public and Not-For-Profit officials involved in the advancement of comprehensive Eye Health Services across the Caribbean. Technical preparations are at an advanced stage for the convening of a 6-monthly consultation by delegates, using the Web-based Conferencing Facility of CCB Eye Caribbean.
Jamaica Society for the Blind adopts National Blindness Services Strategic Framework at its Annual General Meeting
More than one hundred members of the Jamaica Society For The Blind assembled at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston on April 20, for the Organizations 59th AGM. As part of their deliberations, the delegates unanimously adopted a 5-year Strategic Framework to guide the development of Blindness Services across Jamaica. The development of the documenent was facilitated by Frank Bowen, CCB’s Project Development and Advocacy Services Manager. According to Government statistics, more than 27 thousand Jamaicans are blind, with more than six hundred of them being children of school age.