Eye care specialists to meet in Barbados next month

Eye care specialists from across the Anglophone, Dutch and Spanish-speaking Caribbean, North America and Europe will converge in Barbados in July for the 27th Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the West Indies (OSWI).

According to a press release, the main conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel from July 13 -16 and will see ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses and ophthalmic technicians benefiting from a series of presentations, workshops, video symposia and wet labs.

An added feature of this year’s congress is the inaugural nurses’ programme, which will include hands-on sessions for both nurses and ophthalmic technical personnel.