Ophthalmology Department

The Department of Ophthalmology, which split from the five-member department in 1975 into independent departments, has grown over the course of several generations of faculty leadership and a half century of eye care work to become the largest team of ophthalmologists at an integrated, autonomous regional hospital that focuses on medical, teaching, and research. Currently, there are about 90 ophthalmologists working on the clinical frontline each day, including doctors, nurses, technicians, practitioners, graduate students, and postgraduate students. Daily outpatient clinics 200-260 daily surgical procedures 30-40 times.There have been formed eight sub-special groups, including ophthalmic surgery and cornea, ophthalmic internal medicine and gluteal disease, ophthalmic injury and meningitis, ophthalmic and endocrine disease, ophthalmic disease and corneal disease, ophthalmic and orthopedic specialties, ophthalmic and endocrine specialties, ophthalmic and endocrine specialties, ophthalmic specialist specialties, and ophthalmic specialist specialties. In 2002, it was named a regional clinical priority, in 2004 it pioneered the Health Ministry's "Action Refinement" program, traveled to more than 100 flagship county areas across the region, and completed over a thousand free cataract surgeries.