Following the success of Orbis’s first project in South Africa, which established a tertiary child eye care hospital and strengthened the eye health system in KwaZulu-Natal, Orbis Africa was invited to work in Gauteng Province. In 2015 Orbis signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the Gauteng Provincial Department of Health, establishing a formal relationship to strengthen eye health services in Gauteng Province.
Through a dynamic public private partnership with the Gauteng Department of Health and national retailer Truworths, Orbis has transformed the Eye Clinic at Lenasia South Community Health Centre. The upgrade has resulted in strengthened eye health services at the facility and an improved patient experience.
We implemented ground breaking work at a grass-roots level through collaboration with Early Childhood Development practitioners and Traditional Healers in the informal sector.
A consortium of partners consisting of the Brien Holden Vision Institute, Orbis Africa and Dublin Institute of Technology has committed to a five-year collaboration, with national government, to develop an integrated framework for comprehensive child eye health services in South Africa. One of the key objectives of the consortium is to advocate and work in synergy to support the National Departments of Health, Basic Education and Social Development to deliver services to children as prescribed in the existing national and international policy and campaigns.