386 Community Nurses have been trained in Diabetes Retinopathy Awareness Training and they will now able to further assist their District Nurses and Zone Nurses in their programs for wellness screening.
This has been revealed by the Minister for Health Rosy Akbar.
Akbar says that empowering the primary care workers through knowledge on good management of diabetes, provided avenues to curb the rise of visual impairment and blindness as complications of diabetes in the country.
Minister for Health says that they have now taken the Diabetes Retinopathy Outreach Awareness to rural communities to further strengthen referral pathways and identify new cases that need care.
Minister Akbar is also reminding Nurses that the government in it’s 2018-2019 National Budget is recognising nursing specialisation by awarding 800 specialist nursing position.
Akbar says that this means that qualified Eye-Care Nurses can now be registered with the Fiji Nursing Council under the current vocational category and become fully-fledged eye specialist Nurses.
