Eye health in Kenya: 50 years on, what have we to show for it?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64666/joecsa.2018.181Abstract
In Kenya, the first contemporary providers of eye care were opticians that came over from India with
the building of the railway in the 1900s. However, coordinated eye care as we recognize it today began as an initiative of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind (1950 to date - currently operating as Sight savers) and supplemented by Sight by Wings (started in 1971). The Kenya Society for the Blind (KSB) was the local implementing partner for the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. These organizations would bring in doctors from abroad to provide eye care particularly
in the rural areas. Essentially eye health care provision was provided by private healthcare sector players in the de facto vacuum left by both the colonial and post independence governments. This may explain why eye health is to date still viewed by many as an adjunct to health in general and not of primary concern.
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