Seychelles’ health ministry is implementing a five-year strategy to localise all eye surgeries. This is made possible through a partnership the ministry has with the Teaching Eye Surgery Foundation, which is based in Switzerland.
This week the ministry opened its first surgical service on the island nation. Vitreoretinal surgery involves surgical procedures on the retina at the back of the eye.
Jean-Paul Adam, the minister for health, told journalists on Wednesday that with this latest development, the country is on track with its vision to domesticate all eye surgeries in five years’ time.
