Manila Doctors Hospital opens new Vision Center


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Photo shows (from left) MDH Senior Vice President for Medical Affairs Dr. Dante Morales, MDH President Aniceto Sobrepeña, Carl Zeiss Regional Business Development Director Sujay Debnath, Microlab President Vicente Mercado, MDH Hospital Director Dr. Hian Ho Kua, and MDH Department of Ophthalmology Chair Dr. Cesar Ramon Espiritu leading the blessing of the Center.

The newly renovated and upgraded Manila Doctors Hospital (MDH) Vision Center aims to be the first fully-electronic hospital-based eye care center in the country. The formal blessing and inauguration ceremony was held on March 13.

Designed to take advantage of the latest advancements in technology, the Vision Center features an advanced computer system that introduce paperless transaction and enables near real-time processing and transmission of results. The Forum System is the powerful system that serves as the Vision Center’s nerve center. Patients are issued a unique ID card that stores relevant information and history. After the test, results are uploaded onto the Forum System making them available to both the patient and doctor online and near real-time which allows doctors to make faster and more accurate diagnosis whenever, wherever.

The Vision Center is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment including the latest Humphrey visual field analyzer, an Ophthalmic Technologies Inc. (OTI) 3-dimensional ultrasonography machine, capable of both A and B scan ultrasonography, the IOL Master 500 Biometer for precision measurements of intraocular lens powers essential in cataract surgery visual outcome. Recently, the Center has acquired the latest Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) the Cirrus 5000, a non-contact, non-invasive imaging technique used to obtain high resolution cross-sectional images of the retina. This is in addition to the Digital Fundus camera, which generates excellent photos of the retina and optic nerve, the Digital Flourescein Angiography machine. There’s the 532 and Nd:Yag Lasers that is used to treat some forms of retina diseases and glaucoma.

More than the top-of-the-line equipment, the Vision Center also boasts of the most proficient eye specialists and top-notch medical staff to ensure that your eyes are kept in the best possible condition.

SERVICES

The Vision Center aims to provide a comprehensive range of ophthalmologic diagnostic and therapeutic services to further help nurture the gift of sight.

Diagnostic Services:

Automated Perimetry / Visual Field Analyzer

Digital Fundus and Optic Disc Photography

Digital Fluorescein Angiography

Optical Coherence Tomography (anterior and posterior)

Pachymetry

Specular microscopy

Biometry (IOL Master)

A and B scan ultrasonography (OTI)

3D Ultrasonography

 

Therapeutic Services:

532 Laser for Diabetic Retinopathy, Macular Degeneration, Retinal holes, Vascular Occlusion, Central Serous Retinopathy, Neovascular Glaucoma. and other eye pathology needing the procedure

532 Laser Indirect Ophthalmoscope for Retinopathy of Prematurity

Nd:Yag laser for Glaucoma and After cataract capsular opacity and other eye pathology needing the procedure

 

CLINIC HOURS

Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Saturday: 8:00 AM – 12:00 NN

CONTACT NUMBERS

524 3011 local 8138 or 2020

Eye Room (OPD): 3720


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