The Mandeville Regional hospital, located in the central parish of Manchester, is home to an Eye Clinic that serves thousands of Jamaicans from all across the island.
While the Eye Clinic was in existence for several years, it received a much needed boost in 1999 when the Caribbean Council for the Blind (CCB)/Eye Care Caribbean stepped in to initially offer technical support by way of funds for equipment and training.
Then in 2002 the support was brought under a protocol agreement This led to a sustainable system in which the technical support and provision of supplies by CCB-Eye Care Caribbean, would be directly covered by the Government or through the fees charged to patients.
Through hard work and dedication over 15-thousand visited the clinic and more than 600 eye surgeries were carried out in 2009.
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