Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
World
Vision Day World Sight Day is celebrated the 2nd Thursday in October yearly, it focuses the global attention in different types of visual illness, treatments, and how they can be preventable or curable. World Sight Day 2021 took place on Thursday, October 14, 2021, with the slogan “Love Your Eyes”.
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Our objective with this visual health journey is to help those who suffer from visual illness and do not have financial resources to treat it; thus, we can help them to improve their life´s quality, and give them back an opportunity to return to do their activities and normal life, and benefiting the people who receive the surgery, as well as, people around them.
Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
The visual health journey was held in all our clinics and vision centers with ophthalmological consultations, with the purpose to capture bilateral blind people, who will benefited to get a surgery.
Visualiza commemorated this important date by donating more than 150 cataract surgeries without cost.
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Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
On October we had a national news conference with the National Commission for the Prevention against Blindness (CONADI), where we announced information about the visual health journey and the importance of good visual health for human development, where Dr. Lisbeth Alcántara and Dr. Aida Monzón participated.
Likewise, on Thursday, October 14, in our clinic´s auditorium was held the protocol ceremony for World Sight Day, where media were present, and we announced the visual health journey, and the importance of the periodic visual check was exposed.
Our work continues, we have achieved to attend more than 500 people and performed around 150 cataract surgeries in all our locations currently.
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Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
Children´s Day celebration Our social work never stops, as part of the celebration of Children’s Day Visualiza providing ophthalmological check-ups to more than 100 children. The activity took place in our three hospitals City, Petén, Xela and vision centers; our goal is to promote the checkup and implement preventive health. It is recommended by our ophthalmologists to have a check-up every year.
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Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
Visualiza in constantly knowledge
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Our administrative staff participated in the practical workshop called “Entrepreneurship”, the purpose was to increase alertness about the best way to take decisions and how they can benefit or affect the clinic´s performance.
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We are constantly improving, during October there were held learning workshops to update information and provide tools to improve the processes that ophthalmologists’ performance in the clinic.
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Clínica Visualiza - NOVEMBER 2021
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