I never knew optometry existed, even though one of my family member practices it!I just knewher as an optician. Growing up, I admired my mum so much that I wanted to follow in her footstepsand be a police officer mainly for the uniform, the marches, and the respect that came with it.To my dad, I […]

February, 2025My earliest memory of eye care was when I accompanied my mother for her yearly eye checkup.At the time the clinic did not have any eye practitioners, so we had to wait for one who was doingrotations between different centers. I was around sixteen at the time and going through that stagewhere I was […]

Dear OPTOGLOBE members,We are excited to introduce the Arclight Project, an initiative that has revolutionisedthe approach to eye care by providing simple, affordable, and highly effectivediagnostic tools.https://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/arclight/ The Arclight device is a compact, solar-powered ophthalmoscope and otoscope thatallows Optometry students, professionals, and community health workers to conductthorough eye and ear examinations, even in resource-limited settings.https://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/arclight/devices/arclight/ […]