ORBIS development offices are located in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Macau, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. Offices with long-term programs dedicated to preventing blindness and restoring sight are located in China, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam. To date, ORBIS has trained more than 288,000 eye care professionals aboard the ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital and in local hospitals.
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This cutting edge telemedicine initiative uses the Internet to connect doctors throughout the world with ORBIS volunteer ophthalmologists for professional mentoring, patient care consultation and online continuing medical education. ORBIS conducts intensive specialized training at local hospitals year round and supports fellowships for talented partner eye care professionals to undertake advanced study with mentors at some of the world’s leading eye care institutions. Onboard, eye care professionals from developing nations work side-by-side with the international ORBIS medical team to perform surgery, learn new skills and restore sight. The world’s only airborne ophthalmic training facility serves as a focal point for educational programs and advocacy efforts. Long-term regional projects are also underway in parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. In five priority countries - Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, India and Vietnam - ORBIS develops and implements comprehensive eye care and blindness prevention efforts. ORBIS integrates capacity building, public awareness and advocacy into its action plan through several avenues: Programs, projects and the Flying Eye Hospital Examples include the introduction of latrines and face washing in parts of rural Ethiopia to stop the spread of trachoma, and encouraging legislators in Peru and Uganda to enact national eye banking policies. In addition to building up a country’s eye care infrastructure, ORBIS promotes public awareness of blindness treatment and prevention and advocates for national policies affecting eye health.
Improving the quality and accessibility of eye care.Introducing ophthalmic technology and related management systems.Training eye care professionals and health workers.By building up the long-term capabilities of eye care institutions (capacity building), ORBIS helps its partners reach a state where they can provide, on their own, quality eye care services that are affordable, accessible and sustainable.Įssential elements of capacity building include: ORBIS provides the tools, training and technology for local doctors and other health care personnel to develop workable and lasting solutions to the tragedy of avoidable blindness in their country. How does ORBIS bring sight to those in need? Since 1982, ORBIS has treated and transformed the lives of more than 15 million people in 89 countries.
Our goal is a world in which no one is needlessly blind, where quality eye care is available to everyone. Our mission is to preserve and restore sight by strengthening the capacity of local institutions in their efforts to prevent and treat blindness. ORBIS International is a nonprofit global development organization dedicated to saving sight worldwide.
ORBIS Canada is the Toronto-based office of ORBIS International.
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