Gathering Baseline Data for a Rural Cataract Surgical Outreach Service in Igabi District, Nigeria
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Gathering Baseline Data for a Rural Cataract Surgical Outreach Service in Igabi District, Nigeria
Background: In an effort to plan for effective community-based cataract surgical services in Igabi district of northern Nigeria, the National Eye Centre, Kaduna (a tertiary eye hospital) conducted a population-based cross sectional survey in the district. The survey was conducted in order to generate baseline data on cataract blindness in the district. Methods: A total of 2044 people out of 240...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nigerian Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0189-9171
DOI: 10.4314/njo.v15i2.12009