DOHA: The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) organised a five-day workshop on eye health for school nurses. The event was organiSed in collaboration with Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC).
The workshop comes as part of eye health promotion in schools and prevention of cases of visual impairment among students through early detection.
The workshop featured various lectures on eye exam, health, injuries, and ways of handling it.
The workshop comes in line with MoPH’s efforts to cope with “Vision 2020” with an aim to train the participants on the proper methods and requirements of examining students’ eyes. It also gave a special focus on how to fill up the online forms which have been updated this year to make the process of data collection more efficient.
“The ministry has started the implementation of Eye Health Promotion Programme several years ago. The programme has achieved a great success particularly after the expansion of its implementation to cover all private and community schools,” said Sheikha Dr Al Anoud bint Mohamed Al Thani, Director of Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Diseases, MoPH.
The specialists form Blindness Control Programme, in cooperation with school nurses, conduct a vision sharpness test for students, given the fact that school-age children are more vulnerable to vision problems, squint and amblyopia (lazy eye).
