Scaling up the delivery of refractive error services within a district health system: the KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa experience

Table 1 Details of trainings conducted

Cadre trained	Key competencies developed	Duration of training
Primary Health Care Nurses Part 1	• Measurement of Visual acuity	5 days
Primary Health Care Nurses Part 1	Identification of basic eye pathological conditions	5 days
Primary Health Care Nurses Part 2 (Advanced Training offered to a percentage of those that completed Part 1)	• Ophthalmoscopy	5 days
	Identification of basic posterior segment diseases	5 days
Ophthalmic Nurses	• Basic Refraction	5 days
Ophthalmic Nurses	Diagnosis & Management of Ocular Disease	5 days
Optometrists	• Low Vision Assessments	5 days
Optometrists	• Treatment of Binocular Vision Anomalies	2 days
	• Posterior Segment Pathology

ISSN: 1472-6963