FIMA Year Book 2010-2011 - Federation of Islamic Medical ...

FIMA EYE HOSPITALS
FIMA was to delegate volunteer eye surgeons and
teams from time to time to augment the drive for
reduction of this extensive backlog of visually
impaired people. FIMA was to provide training of
local Sudanese professionals, and to provides
ophthalmology equipment; instruments, and
consumables including the special eye lenses, as
well as medications. Surgical equipments were
lifted by FIMA to this hospital in early 2006 at a
cost of over USD 100,000.
• WHO-EMRO would support the Sudanese
health authorities in providing incentive
remuneration, for one year, of one Sudanese
eye specialist to be deployed from Khartoum
on full-time basis at al-Genaina Hospital.
WHO-EMRO would also help FIMA in provision
of some consumables and medications:
The selected Sudanese eye surgeon was sent to
Pakistan for further specialized training in
ophthalmology, sponsored by IMA of Pakistan
(FIMA member).
The hospital was officially opened on February
27, 2006, and has been fully functional since then,
as a symbol of successful and harmonious
collaboration, in good faith, between the above
bodies.
In 2008, a small building extension was added to
the hospital, which now includes:
• The operating section:
o One room for major operations.
o One room for minor operations.
o Sterilization room.
o Nurses’ room.
o Supplies’ room.
• Doctor’s office.
• In-patient six-beds male room, another sixbeds
female room, one isolation room, and
nurses’ room.
• The new extension includes:
o Two examination rooms.
o One vision examination room.
o Medical records room.
This hospital was well equipped with various
instruments and consumables to function as an
independent eye care facility.
In the latest operational report, the following
achievements were accomplished by the FIMA
Eye Hospital at al-Genaina:
• Cataract surgeries from 2006-2009: 4000
• Cataract surgeries in 2010: 420
• Cataract surgeries in the first 6 months of
2011: 620
Al-Genaina eye hospital early phases
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