%0 Journal Article
%T Cataract surgery output and cost of hospitalization for cataract surgery in the University of Benin Teaching hospital
%A IA Osahon
%J West African Journal of Medicine
%D 2002
%I 
%X Cataract is the most common cause of curable blindness in Nigeria. Nigeria has an overall population of approximately 110 million with a blindness prevalence rate of 1%. Cataract is responsible for 30 ¨C 60% of the blindness. A great deal of blindness prevention activity should therefore center around cataract surgery if we Are to clear out cataract backlog of over   a million individuals. Only 106 cataract surgeries were performed in the 24 months reviewed. There were 75 males and 31 females. This study highlights meager contribution of teaching hospitals to the prevention of blindness. Several factors including ignorance, poverty, socioeconomic and political tensions and teaching hospital bureaucracy are no doubt responsible for this. Hospitalization for cataract surgery is becoming very unpopular in the developed world as this tends to increase cost of surgery. The need to establish cataract surgery outreach services and adopt day case surgical procedures I our hospitals cannot be over emphasized as strategies for clearing our national cataract backlog. R¨¦sum¨¦ La cataracte avait la fr¨¦quence la plus ¨¦lev¨¦e comme a cause de la c¨¦cit¨¦ gu¨¦rissable au Nig¨¦ria. Approximativement, le total de la population nig¨¦riane est 110 million et le taux de la fr¨¦quence de la c¨¦cit¨¦ est 1%. La cataracte est la cause principale de 30 ¨¤ 60% cas des c¨¦cit¨¦. Si nous devons r¨¦ussir ¨¤ ¨¦liminer les arri¨¨rs probl¨¨mes des cataracts de plus de   million cas, nos efforts sur la chirurgie de cataracte devraient porter principalement sur des programmes visant sur des measures preventives contre les incidences de la c¨¦cit¨¦. 106 cas des chirurgies cataracts avaient ¨¦t¨¦ op¨¦r¨¦es Durant la p¨¦riode de 24 mois de cette etude. Il y avait en total 75 males et 31 femmes. Cette etude met en relief le maigre effort par rapport ¨¤ la contribution des centre hospitaliers universitaires ¨¤ l'¨¦gard de measures preventives contre l'inciedence de la c¨¦cit¨¦. Des probl¨¨mes tells que l'ignorance, la poavret¨¦, des probl¨¨mes relatifs ¨¤ l'¨¦conomique sociale, probl¨¨mes politiques et ¨¤ la bureaucracie au sien des centers hospitaliers universitaires sont sans doute responsables. Hospitalisation des maladies pour la chirurgie de la cataracte devient de plus en plus mal accenillie dans les pays d¨¦velopp¨¦s du monde parceque cette operation est co teuse. On a besoin de mettre en place les services chirurgicals des cataractes ¨¤ la population rurale et instaurer le processus d'un dossier medical journalier pour la chirurgie dans tous les h pitaux comme strat¨¦gie afin de resoudre le probl¨¨me national portant sur les arrieres de cataractes. West African Journal of Medicine 22(1) 2003: 174-176
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