Global Ophthalmology Insights for a Global Pandemic

The solutions we develop for this pandemic have to ensure that while eye care is appropriately scaled back, it is evenly and equitably available.Utilize the Maximum Potential of Personnel In many low- and middle-income countries the scarcity of trained eye care professionals is acute. The Aravind Eye Care System in India is renowned for expanding the scope of practice for its mid-level ophthalmic personnel, thereby supplying quality care to a greater number of people.1 Fellowship-trained specialists in developing regions continue to provide comprehensive ophthalmic services to their patients in addition to complex subspecialty interventions. [...]the threshold for treating—or even seeing—a patient has changed abruptly.