Addis Abeba — Minelik II Hospital, one of the country's long serving hospitals on Friday inaugurated an optical production unit in its compound in an effort to deliver better services to eye patients.
The unit is the result of partnership between Vision Aid Overseas (VAO) and Donald and Atchison's (D&A) company to produce 40 eye glasses to produce on a daily basis and to dispense with low cost.
The eye service unit has cost workshop with the capital of 75 thousand USD.
Previously the hospital was not having spectacle production unit.
According to Tezera Kifle, Executive Director of Minelik II hospital, having the opportunity to establish optical work-shop within the hospital, is instrumental in helping the needy people and diversify the service.
"Formerly the hospital prescribes people to buy from other optical centers, that waste extra money time and also the hospital lost its income," Tezera said during the inaugural at the hospital.
The production unit aimed to help those groups of people who suffered from low vision and visual impairment, to offer correct their problems with eye glasses.
Visual impairment due to refractive error is one of the main causes of low vision and blindness particularly in Ethiopia and the world at large.
The optical workshop will operate by three employees, trained in the profession.
Since April , the optical workshop has dispensed 119 pairs of spectacles to patients.
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