About Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
About Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Mission: Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation was founded in July 2009 with a simple mandate "Eradicating Needless Blindness in Africa" by reaching out and providing compassionate, quality, affordable, patient centered care.
Vision: A world where nobody is needlessly blind. Eradicating avoidable blindness from all corners of the world. To build a team of dedicated eye care professionals, working in the best eye hospital in Nigeria.
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Our co-founders are committed and dedicated to a life of service to the peoples of the rivers in the Niger-delta regions of Nigeria. Our pledge and goal is to eradicate cataract blindness in the Niger-delta of Nigeria.
"To know these folk who do not have much and do not ask for too much, like we have come to do all this 15 years of travelling to serve with them, is to love them unconditionally".
The Eye Hospital
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation
The Eye Hospital, GRA, Benin city is our base hospital. We invest in the latest medical technology to provide our patients with the most advanced and effective treatments available.
The Foundations outreach activities is supported at the following locations:
*Africa cataract vision centre, Agbowu Medical center, Warri.
* Africa cataract / Imani bridges vision centre, The First Storey Building, Badagry, Lagos state. (mainly for march initiative).
*Africa cataract vision centre, Tsekelewu, Warri north Lga, Delta state.
* Africa cataract vision centre, Ogheye community, On the shores of the Atlantic ocean, Delta state.
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation Services
Cataract Treatment
Cataract Treatment
Cataract Treatment
Bilateral cataract blindness accounts for about 50% of all cases of avoidable blindness in our local communities in Nigeria. Blindness is a tough predicament particularly in resource scarce communities. To be blind in our rural communities in Africa sure and certain poverty with all its attendant consequences. Targeting cataract blindness improves the overall economic outlook of local communities by making the hitherto blind "income earners again". Our expert medical staff are committed to providing the highest level of care to our patients. With years of experience and training, they use the latest techniques and technologies to ensure the best outcomes possible outcomes.
Glaucoma
Cataract Treatment
Cataract Treatment
Our community/patient-centred approach to healthcare ensures that each patient receives personalized attention and care. We believe in working closely with our patients in their communities to develop a treatment plan tailored to their specific peculiarity and needs. Glaucoma accounts for about 13% of all avoidable blindness in our communities second only to cataract blindness. However glaucoma blindness occupies "special status" because any resulting blindness can not be reversed as is possibly in the case with cataracts.
The approach we have adopted is education of the people during outreaches explaining the disease, consequences of inadequate treatment and a clear prescription of the treatment modalities available. For the rural- riverine dwellers we advocate surgery because of the fear of non compliance with prescribed eye drops that are not readily available.
Surgical Eye Care
Cataract Treatment
Optometry Services
At Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation Hospital, we invest in the latest medical technology to provide our patients with the most advanced and effective treatments available. Our commitment to innovation ensures that our patients receive the best possible care.
Optometry Services
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
Optometry Services
We are committed to giving back to our community through various outreach programmes and initiatives. We believe that by working together, we can create a healthier and more vibrant community for everyone.
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
At Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation Hospital, we invest in the latest medical technology to provide our patients with the most advanced and effective treatments available. Our commitment to innovation ensures that our patients receive the best possible care.
Dedicated Surgical Suites
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
Diagnostic and Laboratory Services
At Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation Hospital, we invest in the latest medical technology to provide our patients with the most advanced and effective treatments available. Our commitment to innovation ensures that our patients receive the best possible care.ur state-of-the-art facilities are designed to provide high volume and high quality cataract surgeries a comfortable and safe environment for our patients. We invest in constructing two state of the art dedicated eye surgical suites, the first of its kind in the interior recesses of the Niger-delta with the latest technology and equipment to ensure that our facilities are up-to-date and fully functional.
Community Outreach Programs
Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation - Your Trusted Healthcare Partner
- The target one million (1,000,000) population of the foundations blindness prevention initiative are the peoples (Itsekiri, Ijaw and Ilaje) of the rivers in the Niger-delta regions of Nigeria. Access to these communities is usually down any of the many tributaries feeding into the Atlantic ocean. Not many professionals want to venture into this tough watery terrain preferring instead to practice in major cities with the attendant ease. Life for the locals is tough made more so because of pollution from crude oil exploration. You have to go to appreciate the suffering of these people. They live in homes built on stilts above water already polluted by crude oil from which they must scratch a living.
- Someone must go. At Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation we have designed a fit for purpose smart, nimble and agile team of RURAL RIVER EYE SURGEONS assisted by optometrists, ophthalmic nurses and volunteer eyecare personnel that undertakes year round outreaches and performing the much needed orthodox cataract operations in two of our fit for purpose surgical suites at Tsekelewu (Poluopubo) on the Olero creek and at Ogheye community on the Benin river or at any other rural communities, thus obviating the at times 2-3 hours boat journey to the closest medical facility. We are committed to eradicating avoidable blindness.
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Upcoming Outreach Programs
Exceptional Surgical Eye Care @Badagry 2024
Exceptional Surgical Eye Care @Badagry 2024
Exceptional Surgical Eye Care @Badagry 2024
We are truly appreciative of the international support from Imani Bridges Inc USA. Time has gone by so quickly, its 10 years of unbroken and dedicated service. thankfully we have established a modern surgical theatre in our Badagry facility for our annual surgical eyecamp. there was a time in the first couple of years that we operated inside the vestry of the Anglican Cathedral, Badagry. we owe all we have been able to achieve in Badagry to the Bishop J. Adeyemi, the church and the people of Badagry. Thank you for letting us serve you.
Patient-Centred Approach
Exceptional Surgical Eye Care @Badagry 2024
Exceptional Surgical Eye Care @Badagry 2024
The Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria in collaboration with Africa Cataract and Eye Foundation mop up FREE CATARACT SURGERY SERIES 2024.
With our local partner we believe that every patient deserves personalized and compassionate care. We take a patient-centered approach to healthcare, focusing on the unique needs and concerns of each individual patient. Recognizing that our intervention during the 50th anniversary celebrations of the research institute was oversubscribed management decided we undertake a second surgical eye camp to ensure that no-one who is blind from cataracts in their host communities be left behind unattended to.