From the field: Educating DR patients on gaining better diabetes control
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As part of the Vision 2020 Links Programme, a team from the Diabetes Eye Screening Department at Homerton University Hospital in London, UK visited the University Hospital of West Indies (UHWI) in Kingston, Jamaica in June 2015. The purpose of the visit was to share the Homerton team’s experiences with the UHWI’s ophthalmic department in support of their plans to start a pilot eye screening programme for diabetic patients. If it works, this programme would be implemented across the whole island in five years’ time.
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