Posted on: Sun 27-03-2016

To further rev up the widely applauded complementary Eye-Care service that optometrists provide the Nigerian public, N-CONSULT and Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Registration Board of Nigeria (ODORBN), recently gathered no fewer than 250 registered operators in Lagos for a capacity building conference and practical demonstration workshop.

The gathering was aimed at sustaining the laudable developments that have become the lot of the profession since Decree No 34 of 1989 affirmed optometry as a healthcare profession specializing in the art and science of vision care.

The N-CONSULT and ODORBN conference also aimed to further advance the professional interests of optometrists which for some inexplicable reasons, older healthcare professionals as well as entrenched quacks that have dominated the industry have tried to stifle without success.

As it has been the norm with the leading lights of the profession since its birth to carefully single out and address the most critical issues affecting practitioners one after the other, the conference address three critical issues. The first was unity of purpose.

Here, the conference strove to wield the growing number of practicing optometrists together into one united front under ODORBN, to speak with one voice and continue to fight for their collective interests and completely retrieve their profession from charlatans.

The second issue the conference dealt with was effective management of conferee’s professional practice as a business distinct from the practitioners themselves.

And the third and by no means less important, was the art of contact lens fitting; a growing trend in society particularly among elites that requires care because of the sensitivity of the eye.

The conference ended with a demonstration workshop session where trending optometric equipments that NCONSULT deployed to the venue were practically used to teach attendees.

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