IEF SightReach

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• IEF SightReach Management Partner
• Ridge Hospital
• Accra, GHANA
• Funded by de Beaumont Foundation IEF
• Raheem Rahmathullah
• IEF Sustainability Specialist

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Area 238,537 sq. km (92,100 sq. mi.) Pop
21,029,853 (2005 est.)Females- 51 Male
49 Life Expectancy at Birth total population
56 years male 55.04 years female 56.99
years (2005 est.) GDP 5.9 billion (2002)
GDP per Capita 1,980 (2002)
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Purpose Establish the Ridge Hospital as a model
for the country that demonstrates

• Ability of a government hospital to reach
  marginalized populations lacking services
• Establish systems for high volume cataract
  surgery
• Create complimentary high-pay and low-pay
  services
• Improve patient convenience and satisfaction
• Improve financial autonomy
• Develop greater credibility and reputation

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Outputs

• Decrease in Unit cost of cataract surgery
• Increase in surgical quality outcome
• Increase in number of poor and women
• served
• Management Information and reporting
• mechanisms are in place and operational.
• Initiate a High Pay afternoon clinic.
• Start an Outreach program

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Registration
BEFORE area under stilts empty
AFTER stilts area built out to house primary
waiting room, registration, and cashier
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New Nurse Exam Room
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Clinical Exam and Minor Surgery
AFTER One side Test Vision, Refraction, A-Scan
BEFORE Minor Surgery Room
AFTER Other side visual fields, minor surgery
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Redesigned Upstairs Waiting Area Doctors Exam
Room
Less crowded
Dr. Patrick Kwaw-Quaidoo, MD, MPH
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Operating Theatre
BEFORE one bed, one old operating microscope
AFTER 2 beds, 2 surgeons, one new operating
microscope, room for training
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Pilot Optical Service

• Provide optical services and spectacles
• Earn revenue

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Outreach
Registration
Test Vision
Spectacles
Refraction
Nurse Exam
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Church of Latter Days Saints Donates Vehicle for
Outreach Services
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Achievements to Date
Note Salaries and benefits, electricity, water,
and other utilities are not included in
expenditures. These costs are covered by the
Ministry of Health.
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Staff of Eye Unit, Ridge Hospital
Dr. Patrick Kwaw-Quaidoo circled