NEW ORLEANS — Sustainability efforts can be a driver of better global patient access to care, according to a speaker at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
Sila Bal, MD, MPH, said in her outreach work throughout the world, the best sustainability efforts were not framed as climate intervention or “green.” In one particular trip to Nepal, she saw how sustainable practice improved patient care.
“Every single blade was used five to six times,” she said. “We then finished with those blades, took them off the plastic handle and sorted them into