India Vision Institute (IVI) organized a
comprehensive hands-on capacity building workshop on Refraction and Dispensing
for a group of 25 vision care professionals of the National Ophthalmic
Association (NOA) Ranchi from 8th to 10th February 2015.
Ms Sandhya Shekar and Mr M Chandra Shekher from
IVI facilitated the workshop covering a range of topics including essentials of
refraction, ophthalmic dispensing, ocular emergencies, soft skills and
entrepreneurship development. The workshop comprised of both technical and
practical sessions.
This workshop was the eighth workshop organized
by IVI following an agreement between IVI and New Vision Generation India Pvt
Ltd (NVG) to hold capacity building workshops for ophthalmic officers. Previous
workshops held at Rohtak in December 2013; Trichy in February 2014; Aurangabad
in August 2014; Patna in September 2014; Ludhiana in November 2014; Rajahmundry
in December 2014 and Tumkur in December 2014 were very well received.
IVI acknowledges the support of New Vision Generation
India Pvt Ltd.