China

Lead Agency
ORBIS International

Name of Project
Seeing Is Believing – China

Name of Partner/ Implementing Organisation
· The Red Cross Hospital, Kunming, Yunnan.
· The Shanxi Eye Hospital, Taiyuan, Shanxi.
· The Kizilsu Kyrgyz Prefecture Hospital, Atushi, Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
· The People’s First Hospital of Lanzhou, Lanzhou, Gansu.
· The Provincial MCH Centre of Gansu, Lanzhou, Gansu.
· The Prefecture MCH Centre of Zhaotong, Yunnan.

Location
Rural areas in China’s western provinces/ autonomous regions of Yunnan, Shanxi, Xinjiang, and Gansu.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The goal of the programme is to promote high quality, large volume of sustainable cataract surgery and refractive error services among the under-served population in the poorest provinces of West China. Raising public awareness, building local capacity, and providing assistance on the cost of service can help achieve this.

Multi-year Project Objectives:

1. Restore the sight of 30,000 patients suffering from cataract. In addition, diagnose and provide 60,000 children impaired by untreated refractive errors, with appropriate assistance.
2. Screen at least 300,000 rural villagers and poor urban migrants for cataract, refractive errors and other common eye diseases.
3. 4,000,000 people to receive eye health education.

Project Strategy:

Strengthen the infrastructure and capacity of a national level hospital, 2 provincial level hospitals and 15 prefecture/county level hospitals by running 15 local language training sessions for a total of 150 eye doctors in appropriate surgical techniques. Each trained doctor will perform 200 surgeries (50 in Year 1; 70 in Year 2; and 80 in Year 3) and treat 600 cases of refractive errors over three years.

At the same time, 1,000 primary health workers will be trained in primary eye care education, screening and diagnosis. Based on this training, they will conduct community-based outreach activities and establish a referral system from the village to the county level. County/ prefecture hospitals’ capacity will also be strengthened with the training of 200 nurses and the donation of basic equipment.

At the time of preparation, a number of details still have to be developed as a programme of this scale contains a number of projects to be achieved, through several different local
implementing hospitals.

TIMESCALE

Oct 2004 – Sept 2007

APPROXIMATE COST (Year 1, 2, 3 & Total)

Year One: US$350,000
Year Two: US$300,000
Year Three: US$250,000
Total: US$900,000

ESTIMATED NUMBER OF TOTAL BENEFICIARIES

30,000 patients will directly benefit from cataract surgery. 60,000 patients will benefit from treatment of refractive errors.

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