The eye centre at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Centre at Monrovia in Liberia which was helped by the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) here in renovation — by providing guidance in implementing a countrywide community eye health programme — was inaugurated by the country’s president Dr. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Monday.
The centre was supported with latest medical equipment by the Lions Club International Foundation and Operation Eyesight Universal.
An ophthalmologist from the LVPEI has been deputed to manage the standard operating procedures for examination of 2000 outpatients and 100 surgeries in the last four months. LVPEI’s eyeSmart Electronic Medical Record System was installed there.
“This is the first time LVPEI was directly involved in operations of an eye centre outside India. We went there on an invitation from the Liberian President.
The latter extended the invite when he was on a visit to the Hyderabad facility four years ago,” said LVPEI founder-chair Dr. G.N. Rao in a press release.