Post Graduate programme in Community Eye Health

‘In developing countries like India, there is explicit need to enhance the number of eye health professionals’

Aiming to improve healthcare at the grassroots level, a community oriented healthcare course was launched in the city here on Sunday.

The course, a Post Graduate programme in Community Eye Health offered jointly by University of New South Wales, Australia and L.V. Prasad Eye Institute aims at improving the numbers in managerial workforce in eye care in the country.

Speaking at the course popularisation programme held in the city, Ian Jacobs who is the President and Vice Chancellor of UNSW said that such courses will attract more professionals in the near future.