News and notices. December 16, 2013
Practical procurement advice for Africa eye care programmes
![Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMC) intraocular lenses are of high quality and can be procured at affordable prices in low- and middle-income countries. © Heiko Philippin](http://www.cehjournal.org/wp-content/themes/cehj-theme/img/grey.gif)
Our editor, Elmien Ellison, has edited the responses of five ophthalmologists and regular Community Eye Health Journal contributors to an unfortunate case study she came across during a recent visit to Africa. “An ophthalmologist told me that his eye department, in a rural part of his country, had recently lost its non-governmental organisation (NGO) support. As a result, he had not performed any cataract operations for several weeks, because the hospital had not ordered the necessary intra-ocular lenses (IOLs). This seemed a very unfortunate state of affairs – but also something others could learn from.”
Read the full article: “Help! No IOLs for cataract surgery.”