Recycling Prescription Spectacles In West Africa

Optimax currently perform 1,400 laser eye surgery operations every month and of the 100,000 laser eye treatments carried out in the UK in 2002, 30% of these operations were conducted at Optimax eye clinics.

We regularly receive hundreds of letters from patients, which describe how laser eye treatment at Optimax has changed or enhanced their lives.

The spectacles that our patients are thrilled to leave behind in our clinics after laser eye treatment go on to enhance the lives of others in the developing world.

All prescription spectacles donated at the Optimax clinics in the UK are collected at the head office in London for shipment directly to the Optical Unit at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul, The Gambia.

The Gambia is widely acknowledged to have one of the most forward-thinking policies on eye sight problems on the African continent.

Optimax believes that by supporting the development of centres for eye care staff training, real value can be added to the process of recycling prescription eye glasses in the Third World.

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