More than 3,000 specialist nurses have visited all 15,000 villages, in a project bringing hope to the 34% of Rwandans with sight problems
Rwanda has become the first low-income country to provide universal eye care for its 12 million population.
The government has partnered with the organisation Vision for a Nation (VFAN) to train more than 3,000 eye care nurses based in 502 local health centres, prescribing glasses and referring those with serious eye problems to national clinics. Nurses have visited each of Rwanda’s 15,000 villages.
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