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Latest eye testing kit is latest charity buy
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| Rory McClenaghan, Senior Opthamologist, with Penny Kinch. |
THE latest sight testing equipment has been the latest purchase from charitable funds donated to the hospital.
Legacies left to the Eye Department last year have been used to purchase £62,000-worth of state-of-the-art equipment that will benefit patients.
The LogMar system is a computerised sight chart. Instead of reading letters from a chart on the wall, patients read letters, numbers or pictures from a computer screen reflected in a mirror.
It makes sight testing simpler for children who cannot yet read as they can pick out pictures rather than read letters.
Rory McClenaghan, senior opthamologist, explained: "As the size of the letters decreases, it does so in a uniform manner. Previously, they did not decrease by the same amount as they got smaller. This equipment enables a more scientific way of measuring the quality of a person's vision.
"Without the charitable funding, we would not have been able to get this valuable equipment for a very long time."
Thirty-five LogMar systems have been bought for the hospital.
2:55pm Monday 10th March 2008
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