Gondar University department of Ophthalmology,
the only tertiary eye care center in the Amhara region.
And in Gondar we have been working since 2004
and the first project was to develop a comprehensive eye care service
within the existing secondary eye care unit in Gondar.
We have now a very big building
with all the other great necessary infrastructure, equipment,
and creating a child-friendly environment.
Now our objective is to develop a tertiary eye care center
more focused on pediatric ophthalmology. So we have a child-friendly
pediatric eye care department in Gondar, and the main objective of this project is to
continue the reduction of avoidable blindness
particularly in children.
The Amhara region is the second largest in terms of geography or population in Ethiopia.
It is a huge population
so it's a center where a lot of
zones and districts
can come
in Gondar for referral treatment and management,
so it's one of the tertiary eye care centers that
provides training for cataract surgeons, optometrists, ophthalmologists
so it has a huge implication in terms of not only for the Amhara region,
but the whole of Ethiopia.