Introduction
History
Resources
Healthcare
Formation
Research
Support to the member states
Achievement
Partnership

DONNEES PAYS
OCCGE :

• Bénin
• Burkina
  Faso
• Côte
  d'Ivoire
• Mauritanie
• Mali
• Niger
• Sénégal
• Togo

Contacts
O.M.S

HUMAN RESOURCES

INFRASTRUCTURE

FUNDING

Human resources are made of :

20 interns under training process 1 pharmacist         40 ophthalmic nurses (22 in their first year of training, 18 in their second year) 5 cataract surgeons 24 technical agents 8 administrative agents.

8 ophthalmologists and 1 anaesthesiologist, among which 6 Technical Assistants supported by the French Ministry of Co-operation and Development

The Institute controls 5,000 m2 of local divisions on 4 levels in 2 buildings with :

• 3 surgical theatres equipped for all ophthalmological operations (anterior and posterior segments)
• 60 hospital beds
• a triage room
• 10 consultation rooms
• a department of functional exploration with visual field, ERG, EVP, Lancaster, vision of colours, angiography, solid state laser and yag, A and B scan
• a laboratory for analysis
• a computing department, equipped with computers, scanner, CD-ROM, and laser printers
• a training centre, notably including a wet lab
• a library with a documentation centre
• a spectacles workshop
• an operational section with 3 vehicles, (4x4s) and a specially adapted off-road truck.

 

Thanks to this technical level, IOTA will from this time, be at its patients’ service, in the sub-region, in all of ocular pathology.

Funding is as the results of :

• daily incomes (cost recovery)
• member states contributions
• subsidies
• research projects
• donations, grants.

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