BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Kuching BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20180102T000000 RDATE:20380119T111407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:Asia/Kuching +08 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a24438804a0d390b2565817fdca1c5af CATEGORIES:Event CREATED:20190103T164535 SUMMARY:Free Eye Screening co-organised by Ophthalmology Department, UNIMAS and Eye Specialist Centre (ESC) Kuching on 4 November 2018 (Sunday) DESCRIPTION:A free eye screening co-organised by Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of M edicine and Health Sciences, UNIMAS and the Eye Specialist Centre Kuching ( ESC) was held at ESC on 4 November 2018 (Sunday) from 8am to 12.30pm.\nThe eye specialists who were involved in this event were Prof Dr Lim Lik Thai o f UNIMAS, Dr Dennis Kong Ket Ming of ESC, Dr Lo Sheau Kang of ESC and Dr Li m Ching Wei (visiting ophthalmologist at ESC), supported by ESC nursing sta ff and optometrist of ESC and various private optometrists.\nThis event was attended by 215 members of the public, and the outcome included the diagno sis of refractive errors, 8 pterygiums, 89 cataracts, 13 glaucoma suspects, 2 diabetic retinopathy, 1 optic atrophy, 1 retinal vein occlusion, 1 bleph aritis, 75 dry eyes, 1 age-related macula degeneration, 1 squint/amblyopia, 4 maculopathies, 2 epiretinal membrane, 2 posterior capsular opacities, 1 decompensated cornea and glaucoma, 6 posterior vitreous degeneration, 1 ret initis pigmentosa, and one lasered retinal tear. All these patients with po sitive findings were directed to the appropriate advice and counselling and management, with the option of referral to government health care faciliti es should they require.\nOverall, this had been a successful and well recei ved free public eye screening and it is hoped that such events shall be a r egular on-going periodical effort to improve community eye care.\n \n\n \n\ n \n\n \n \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
A free eye screening co-organised by Opht halmology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UNIMAS and t he Eye Specialist Centre Kuching (ESC) was held at ESC on 4 November 2018 ( Sunday) from 8am to 12.30pm.
Th e eye specialists who were involved in this event were Prof Dr Lim Lik Thai of UNIMAS, Dr Dennis Kong Ket Ming of ESC, Dr Lo Sheau Kang of ESC and Dr Lim Ching Wei (visiting ophthalmologist at ESC), supported by ESC nursing s taff and optometrist of ESC and various private optometrists.
This event was attended by 215 members of th e public, and the outcome included the diagnosis of refractive errors, 8 pt erygiums, 89 cataracts, 13 glaucoma suspects, 2 diabetic retinopathy, 1 opt ic atrophy, 1 retinal vein occlusion, 1 blepharitis, 75 dry eyes, 1 age-rel ated macula degeneration, 1 squint/amblyopia, 4 maculopathies, 2 epiretinal membrane, 2 posterior capsular opacities, 1 decompensated cornea and glauc oma, 6 posterior vitreous degeneration, 1 retinitis pigmentosa, and one las ered retinal tear. All these patients with positive findings were directed to the appropriate advice and counselling and management, with the option o f referral to government health care facilities should they require.
Overall, this had been a successful a nd well received free public eye screening and it is hoped that such events shall be a regular on-going periodical effort to improve community eye car e.
DTSTAMP:20240328T210523Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kuching;VALUE=DATE:20190103 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kuching;VALUE=DATE:20190104 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR