ICO Seeks Count of World's Ophthalmologists and Trainees
Posted on August 15, 2010
Topic: Advocacy/Vision 2020, Eye Care
The ICO would like your help obtaining data on the number of practicing ophthalmologists and trainees in ophthalmology in each world country–critical information for international efforts to reduce blindness and visual loss.
The World Health Assembly (WHA) last year endorsed the WHO Action Plan for the Prevention of Blindness and Visual Impairment, which you can review at: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB124/B124_7-en.pdf (PDF – 80 KB).
To support implementation of the Action Plan, the ICO is working to obtain the best possible data on the number of ophthalmologists in practice and being trained in each country. We desperately need this data if we are going to advocate effectively for improving eye care.
We are still missing data from Belarus, Comoros, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Moldova, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Serbia. If you or anyone you know might be able to provide information on these countries, please send an e-mail to ICO Director for Advocacy, Serge Resnikoff, MD, PhD, at advocacy@icoph.org no later than September 10, 2010.
Thank you in advance for your help with this important research.
