In partnersip with the Ministry of Health and other organisations service delivery trips evolved into the development of permanent eye care services for the country.
ICEE has assisted through planning assistance, surveys, infrastructure development, eye care education programmes, financial support, eye examinations and provision of glasses.
To date these activities include screening the vision of 30,000 people, dispensing 18,000 pairs of glasses, training 27 mid-level eye care personnel, establishing an optical workshop in Dili and opening five eye care clinics in Dili, Maliana, Suai, Oecusse and Los Palos.
An optical workshop was established in 2005 at the National Hospital in Dili. The optical workshop has become sufficiently sustainable.
ICEE provided financial support and technical assistance to the Ministry of Health to conduct the Timor Leste Eye Health Survey in urban Dili and rural Bobonaro districts. The survey investigated the prevalence and causes of vision impairment, use of eye care services, willingness to pay for services and how vision related to quality of life.
ICEE has supported activities of Hiam Health, a local NGO established with the purpose of giving support o the patients and outpatients of the Dili National Hospital and Forum Comunicacoes Juventude Oratorio Don Bosco, a local NGO established to provide street children in Dili with education, shelter and meals.
The East Timor Eye Programme, established in July 2001, is a programme delivering national eye care services to Timor Leste.
The programme provides initial eye care and works with the East Timorese Local Health Authorities building a comprehensive and sustainable eye care system for the future.
Click here to download - 22MB, an excerpt from Twenty Minute Miracles, The Story of the East Timor Eye Programme. For more information about the East Timor Eye Programme visit www.etep.org.au
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