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CCB/EYE CARE CARIBBEAN

CARIBBEAN COUNCIL FOR THE BLIND

&

THE FOUNDATION FOR EYE CARE IN THE CARIBBEAN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CCB/Eye Care Caribbean implements one-month Optometry andRefraction Clinics at the Clarevue Psychiatric Hospital and the Fiennes

Residence for the Elderly

St Johns Antigua - February 4, 2013: With the implementation of both

clinics, the Caribbean Council for the Blind/ Eye Care Caribbean (in

association with the Government of Antigua & Barbuda) moves closer to the

goal of Class 1 Eye Care Services for all persons living in the country.

Commencing this week, CCB began implementation of a series of one-month Eye Clinics at both institutions.Through the

month of February, more than 500 residents and staff of both institutions will be screened for all major eye conditions endemic

to the Caribbean. Additionally, all employees and residents of both institutions, who need prescription glasses, will receive

their spectacles, compliments of the Caribbean Council for the Blind said CEO ofCCB-Eye Care Caribbean, Arvel

Grant.

The Clinics are being staffed by 4 Refractionists from Antigua and Barbuda who will be working under the overall

supervision of Dr. Genalin Ang, Head of Optometry Studies at the University of Guyana.

These Clinics mark the next step in the Governments plan to place Class 1 Eye Health Services in all the major

Health Centres across Antigua and Barbuda, starting with: Grays Farm, Johnsons Point, and Clare Hall Clinics.

Vision Centres will also be established at: All Saints, The Hannah Thomas Hospital (in Barbuda) and other Health

Centres as approved by the Government.

Work to establish Vision Centres in: Grays Farm, Clare Hall and Johnsons Point is more than 80% complete Grant

added.

He confirmed that CCB-Eye Care Caribbean has imported just over EC$ 200,000 worth of eye equipment to be

installed in Health Centres across Antigua and Barbuda.

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Arvel Grant - CEO-CCB-Eye CareCaribbean

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Last year, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer announced that three Clinics in Antigua and one in Barbuda

had been identified as Vision Centres to serve the twin-island State.

The Clinics will be accessible the whole idea is to make eye care available in a manner that is affordable. I will

promise you that the cost will be very minimal and affordable. Nobody that has been diagnosed with eye problems in

the country will be denied that opportunity. We believe that the whole question of sight and vision is critical to our

social development, the Prime Minister then said.

The initiatives being undertaken by CCB/Eye Care Caribbean are in keeping with its mandate of

preventing blindness and visual impairment while restoring sight and creating opportunities for persons

whose sight cannot be restored.

Contact:" Arvel Grant" " Chief Executive Officer" " Tel: 1-268-770-0922

PURPOSE

Preventing blindness and visual impairment; while restoring sight and creating opportunities for persons whosesight cannot be restored.

Lower All Saints Road - P.O. Box 1517 - Antigua, West IndiesTel: 1-(268)-462-4111/462-6369/562-2216

Fax: (268)-462-6371

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