OVER 1,000 residents of Anna Regina, Essequibo are expected to benefit from the Canadian Vision Care Medical Team’s outreaches.The team will conduct their work from January 29 – February 5, 2017, when they intend to perform eye examinations and dispense various prescription spectacles to the general public.

According to a release from the Ministry of Public Health, persons will be able to have their eyes tested and screened for various eye diseases, while spectacles will be distributed free of cost. Moreover, persons requiring surgery will be referred to the Suddie Regional Hospital for further examination and analysis by an ophthalmologist.

The team, headed by Dr. David White and Mr. Robert Sentner, includes optometrists, opticians and assistants, who visit Guyana annually to conduct medical outreaches at various locations in the hinterland.

The clinic is expected to benefit residents who are unable to afford eye care services, the release said. This year’s outreach is being done in collaboration with the local Lion’s Club which is expected to provide administrative and logistical support to the team.

Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence lauded the team’s initiative in wanting to contribute to Guyana’s vision care.

Canadian Vision Care was formed in 1981 as a federally chartered non-profit organisation that provides primary eye care and surgical care to hundreds of thousands of the less-fortunate in Third World countries around the world.