International Centre for Eye Health
The Gambia National Eye Health Survey: exciting opportunity for ophthalmologists to participate, January – May 2019
Two National Surveys of Visual Impairment and Blindness in The Gambia were undertaken in 1986 and 1996. The former of which provided baseline data for the inception of The Gambia’s National Eye Health Programme (NEHP). There have been major developments in eye health service provision in the last 20 years, whilst the population has also