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War Memorial Hospital Outreach
Judith Missions, Press Releases Outreach
On the 21st January the NCEH team did an outreach in Navrongo in the War Memorial Hospital.
We performed 54 cataract surgeries and one pterygium surgery.
Cataracts in both eyes for several years.
Judith Missions, Press Releases Outreach
This young man had Cataracts in both eyes for several years. He was completely blind. One week after bilateral surgery his vision is perfect in both eyes and he is able to resume his normal life.
NEW BUILDING
Judith New Building Fence Wall, NCEH
Construction of the new NCEH building started 2 months ago. Now we are filling the land alongside building the wall and designing the building.
We have 16 people working on the construction for now.
NORTHERN COMMUNITY EYE HOSPITAL STATISTICS 2020-2022
2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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Number of Permanent Staff | 6 | 11 | 18 | 19 |
New patients seen: | 3340 | 3594 | 5384 | 4593 |
Total patient visits: | 6784 | 7802 | 11070 | 10398 |
All glasses sold: | 485 | 583 | 868 | 1823 |
Children’s glasses: | 54 | 86 | 143 | 523 |
Lasers performed: | 312 | 352 | 488 | 475 |
Outreach Surgeries | 65 | 304 | 236 | 280 |
Outreach Surgery in NCEH | 116 | 434 | 1007 | |
Pediatric Surgery | 75 | 100 | 185 | 90 |
Total Surgeries | 644 | 949 | 1254 | 1655 |
Types of Surgeries | ||||
SICS | 421 | 782 | 936 | 1082 |
Iris Claw IOL | 11 | 12 | 35 | 34 |
ICCE | 9 | 3 | 12 | 16 |
Pterygium | 28 | 54 | 40 | 71 |
Evisceration | 31 | 22 | 27 | 32 |
Plastic | 9 | 6 | 20 | 10 |
Glaucoma | 3 | 4 | 10 | 6 |
AC Washout | 2 | 3 | 8 | 5 |
Chalazion | 8 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
ETC | 57 | 59 | 121 | 117 |
INAUGURATION SPEECH
Immaraba! Impuyje kapaj sokAm , naun deszogo!
Thank you very much all the invited guests for honoring us with their presence!
I am originally from Central Eu from a small country called Hungary. After finishing med school I immigrated to the US and became an eye doctor. I worked in private practice there for 25 years. It has always been my dream to work in a developing country, so I started to do 2-week long cat surgery outreaches to Central America and Africa in 2003.7 years ago I moved to Tamale permanently, as I realized that my skills will better serve the needy here than in the US. It was dr Wanye who convinced me to come to Tamale, so I am eternally grateful to him for this.
I have been working in the Tamale Teaching Hosp since. A few years ago with a few friends, namely dr Collins, Jangu Ibrahim and Mashood Osman we decided to start an independent eye hospital. We named it the NCEH.
Our mission is to consistently provide comprehensive and good quality eye care to all patients, regardless of their age, race, tribe, religion and financial status. Our services are easily accessible and affordable. We will also provide general eye health education, and after the initial setup period, we are also going to train eye care workers.
Our team is committed to treat all patients with professionalism, compassion and in a way to preserve their dignity.
The word “Community” in the name of our hospital means that the needs of our community, meaning whole North Ghana, guide all our decisions. We do not want to take care of only the rich and affluent. We are realizing a special business model, called Aravind, already working well in many Asian and African countries. It is based on differential pricing, so we can take care of everyone in the community, rich and poor equally. This will take some time to develop and implement and there will we mistakes made in the beginning, so we are begging you, the public, to be patient with us. We promise that we will live up to your expectations.
We already applied to NHIS and hopefully within a few months we will be approved. This will make our services even more affordable.
What I see as one of the major problems preventing Ghana to develop more rapidly is the general lack of cooperation and collaboration. So many of us spend valuable time, energy and talent fighting each other instead of working together to advance our cause, whatever that might be. The reason is that we perceive each other as competitors, sometimes even as enemies. Just in my field, some eye doctors fight the optometrists and the eye nurses, and the optoms the eye nurses. We are not enemies of each other, our enemy is blindness, and we have to fight together to conquer it. So I hope that the NCEH will be an agent in promoting good quality eye care in Ghana and also cooperation and collaboration among eye care workers and the whole community.
How YOU can help
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We accept any of the following donations:
Eye drops: antibiotic, steroid, NSAIDs, all diagnostic drops
We accept expired diagnostic eyedrops, as they are still working
(cannot use glaucoma drops, allergy drops, artificial tears)
Eye-ointment – any kind
Tape
Scrubs (can be used)
Blood-pressure machine
Surgical supplies:
Intraocular implants
Eye surgery blades
Viscoelastic
Drapes-sterile, disposable or nondisposable
Used ophthalmic instruments:
(only if they are in working order)
Direct ophthalmoscope
Indirect ophthalmoscope
20D lens
78 or 90D lens
Slit-lamp
Perkins tonometer
Tonopen
Phoropter
Lens-set
A-scan
Small bipolar cautery
Operating microscope – any kind with coaxial illumination
Please, e-mail us if you want to donate any other instrument and we will let you know if it can be used.
You will receive a tax-deductible receipt for your donations.
How your donations were used
How your donations were used :
The following items were donated to the Eye Clinic of the Tamale Teaching Hospital in 2014 and 2015:
Ophthalmic supplies:
- Surgical instruments
- Glaucoma drainage devices
- YAG laser
- ICare tonometer
- Perkins tonometer
- Intraocular lenses
- Miochol
- Vision blue
- Needles
- Surgical tape
- Surgical gloves
- Diagnostic lens
- Cauteries
- Ocular prostheses
- Bulbs to ophthalmic instruments
- Direct ophthalmoscopes
- Vitrector heads
- Sutures
Medications:
- Antibiotic/antifungal combination drops
- Dilating drops
- Mitomycin
- Triamcinolone injection
- Vancomycin
- Cefuroxime
Other supplies:
- Extension chords
- Power strips
- Surge protectors
- Miscellaneous electrical supplies
- Diesel fuel to generator
- Printer
- Paper and other office supplies
- Batteries
The following donations were made during our Kpandai/Wulensi/Salaga 2013 eye-mission trip:
- The entire outreach was sponsored by Right to Sight and Health with the exception of transportation. All the supplies were brought by us. We also paid 3 ophthalmic nurses for 5 days each who did the prescreening of cataract patients at each location, and 3 other ophthalmic nurses who participated in the outreach.
- Part of the leftover supplies were donated to the local ophthalmologist including eyedrops,eye-ointments, sterile disposable drapes and intraocular lenses (AC and PC IOLs)
The following donations were made during our Ourossogie, Senegal 2012 eye-mission trip:
- 1 Endure operating microscope with 7 spare bulbs and hard case
- 700 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids, Fluress)
- Eye-ointments
- 1direct ophthalmoscopes with spare bulbs
- 1 Topcon slit-lamp with spare bulbs
- 3 complete sets of cataract surgical instruments
- Sutures for cataract and trachoma surgery
- Intraocular lenses (AC and PC IOLs)
- Viscoelastic
- Surgical scrubs
- Sterile disposable drapes
- Lidocaine
- 1000$ to the hospital of Bakel
The following donations were made during our Bakel, Senegal 2011 eye-mission trip:
- 1100 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- 16 pairs of aphakic glasses
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids, Fluress)
- Eye-ointments
- 1 direct ophthalmoscopes with spare bulbs
- 1 indirect ophthalmoscope with spare bulbs
- 2 complete sets of cataract surgical instruments
- Sutures for cataract and trachoma surgery
- Intraocular lenses (AC and PC IOLs)
- Viscoelastic
- Surgical scrubs
- Spare bulbs for operating microscope
- 1 book: “Eye surgery in hot climates” in French
- 1000$ to the hospital of Bakel
The following donations were made during our Cameroon 2011 eye-mission trip:
- 500 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids, Fluress)
- Eye-ointments
- Ophthalmology books and DVDs
- Surgical blades
- 1 direct ophthalmoscope with spare bulb
- 1 automated blood-pressure machine
- Sutures for cataract and trachoma surgery
- 4 boxes of sterile surgical gloves
- 20 bottles of Lidocaine
- Syringes and needles
- Surgical scrubs
- 2 fans
- 1500$ to the Catholic Hospital of Tonga
The following donations were made during our Tambacounda, Senegal 2011 eye-mission trip:
- 1200 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- 21 pairs of aphakic glasses
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids, Fluress)
- Eye-ointments
- 2 direct ophthalmoscopes with spare bulbs
- 1 indirect ophthalmoscope
- 2 complete sets of cataract surgical instruments
- Sutures for cataract and trachoma surgery
- 1 78D diagnostic fundus lens
- 1 20D diagnostic fundus lens
- 1 autoclave
- Surgical scrubs
- 10 chairs
- 2850$ to the hospital of Tambacounda
The following donations were made during our Ghana 2010 eye-mission trip:
- 1500 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- 5 pairs of aphakic glasses
- 50 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids)
- Eye-ointments
- 2 direct ophthalmoscopes with spare batteries and bulbs
- Miscellaneous surgical instruments
- Sutures (20 boxes of 20 sutures for trachoma surgery)
- Surgical gloves
- 1 slit-lamp
- 1 78D diagnostic fundus lens
- 2 blood-pressure cuffs and 2 stethoscopes
- 40 bottles of Lidocaine
- 50 pounds of clothing
- 700$ to the medical clinic of Assin Praso
- 1700$ to the medical clinic of Adjoube
- 1500$ for outreach pediatric mission organized by Dr Kennedy Opoku
The following donations were made during our Senegal 2010 eye-mission trip:
- 1200 pairs of glasses (reading glasses, distance glasses and sunglasses)
- 20 pairs of aphakic glasses
- 50 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Eyedrops (antibiotics, steroids)
- Eye-ointments
- 20 Surgical scrubs to wear in OR
- Miscellaneous surgical instruments
- Sutures (10 boxes of 30 sutures for trachoma surgery)
- Surgical gloves
- 50 bottles of Lidocaine
- 1 laptop computer
- 1 blood-pressure machine
- 30 flashlights (mechanical, without battery)
- 2 stethoscopes
The following donations were made during our Ghana 2009 eye-mission trip:
- Autoclave – small and fast, to sterilize ophthalmic instruments
- 2 sets of cataract surgery instruments (30 pieces each)
- Miscellaneous surgical instruments
- Perkins tonometer
- 2 eye laser lenses
- 3 ophthalmic diagnostic lenses
- Direct ophthalmoscope
- 800 pairs of glasses
- 40 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Intraocular implants
- 50 syringes of visoelastic
- Intraocular antibiotics
- Eye-surgery blades
- Eyedrops
- Patient information material
- Surgical scrubs
- Sutures
- 1000$ to the Presbyterian Hospital of Dormaa-Ahenkro
- 5000$ for repair of the nursing quarters
The following donations were made during our Ghana 2009 medical mission trip:
- Compression stockings 50
- Otoscope, Welch Allyn 5
- Ophthalmoscope Welch Allyn 5
- MAP Medicine pack 5 (125 pounds of medications, including antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, antidiabetics, asthma-medicine, antiallergics, topical ointments, vitamins, etc)
- Ambulance car
- Blood sugar machines 15
- Flat Screen computer complete 1
- EKG machine 1
- Defibrillator 4
- HP Duplex Ultrasound machine 1
- Surgical trays 5
The following donations were made during our Senegal 2009 eye-mission trip:
- Miscellaneous surgical instruments
- 1 ophthalmic diagnostic lens
- Direct ophthalmoscope
- Indirect ophthalmoscope
- 600 pairs of glasses
- 15 pairs of aphakic glasses
- 50 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Eyedrops
- Patient information material
- Surgical scrubs
- Sutures
The following donations were made during our Cambodia 2008 medical mission trip:
- MAP Medicine pack 5 (125 pounds of medications, including antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, antidiabetics, asthma-medicine, antiallergics, topical ointments, vitamins, etc)
- Antithrombotic medications (low molecular weight heparin)
- Anticoagulation monitors for fingersticks
- Anti-venum
- Hewlett Packard US machine 1
- 200 + vascular catheters
- 100 assorted catheters for percutaneous insertion
- Complete defibrillators 4
- Cambodian medical student semester of tuition (3 students)
- Pay per day for Cambodian student translators
- Blood pressure cuffs 10
- Blood sugar machines 10
- EKG machines 2
- Otoscope, Welch Allyn 4
- Ophthalmoscope Welch Allyn 5
- Computers with monitors 2
- Dell Laptop 1
- Cameras for Cambodian school 50
- Stethoscopes 10
- Equipment for construction project for children living with AIDS
- Urologic catheters
- Surgical set- up for urology suite
- Acuson duplex Ultrasound machine 1
- Memory sticks for Cambodian physicians for continuing medical
- Education course 50
- Donation to Sihanouk hospital for ancillary services for
- Continuing medical education course
The following donations were made during our Ghana 2008 eye-mission trip:
- 2 direct ophthalmoscopes
- 2 blood-pressure machines
- 2 stethoscopes
- 2 otoscopes
- 900 pairs of glasses
- 50 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Eyedrops
- 10 bottles of lidocaine
- Patient information material
- Surgical scrubs
- Sutures
- 50 syringes of visoelastic
- Intraocular implants
- 1000$ donation to the local clinic
The following donations were made during our Senegal 2008 eye-mission trip:
- Cataract surgical instruments
- 1 ophthalmic diagnostic lens
- Direct ophthalmoscope
- Indirect ophthalmoscope
- 600 pairs of glasses
- 10 pairs of aphakic glasses
- 50 pounds of medications (antibiotics, antihypertensives, analgesics, antihelmintics, etc)
- Eyedrops
- Surgical scrubs
- Sutures
- Patient information material