After a hiatus over five years, the National Ophthalmology Hospital, located at Port Mourant, has restarted cataract surgeries.
The Ministry of Health invested over $90 million to procure needed equipment while additional funds were spent on rehabilitating the facility, which has three operating theatres and four wards.
Medical Director of the hospital Dr Vineshri Khirodhar told Sunday Stabroek that the cataract surgeries recommenced on February 13. “You guys would know that for the last five and a half years no cataract surgeries were being done at the National Ophthalmology Hospital… we have finally got into the stage where we have commenced surgeries and we have been doing surgeries for the last five days,” Khirodhar, who was appointed last year, said.
