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) Nanded and Jalna from 30 May to 1 June, 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 ninth
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; Tumkur in December 2014 and
Ranchi in February in 2015 were very well received.
IVI acknowledges the support of New Vision Generation India
Pvt. Ltd.