Underdeveloped regions need area-specific health care plans, market regulations

TOKYO β€” Underdeveloped regions of the world need eye care professionals, such as technicians, nurses and other non-medical staff, who specialize in specific areas and train in specific activities to address needs, according to one speaker. β€œIt takes too much time and resources to train and specialize ophthalmologists who will then be able, for lack of structural resources and the type of services that are mostly needed, to use a minimal part of their skills and knowledge. Ophthalmologists are overqualified for certain tasks, and there are countries that just cannot (Read more...)

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