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Services Offered

Eye Clinic

The University of KwaZulu-Natal (Westville Campus), Discipline of Optometry, holds both an in-house and external eye clinics throughout the academic year.  We offer a comprehensive vision assessment for GENERAL & SPECIALIST CLINICS.

These clinics have two primary objectives: 

  • To deliver eye-care at an affordable rate to a community of people who have been disadvantaged by access to affordable eye-care.
  • Secondly, the clinics are teaching clinics, in that, undergraduate students perform the tests under the supervision of qualified optometric staff. 

In-House / Internal Clinics

The in-house clinic offers eye care services in different fields, that is:

  1. General vision assessments
  2. Low vision assessments
  3. Paediatric vision assessments
  4. Binocular vision assessments
  5. Contact lens assessments

Eye testing is at no charge with every pair of spectacles / contact lenses / device dispensed.  Patients are welcome to have their prescription at a nominal fee if opting to have their spectacles made privately. 

Spectacles can be ordered from a range of budget frames, (ensuring that the communities who have been disadvantaged have means to affordable eye-care). 

 Cosmetic (luxury) frames are also available.

The clinic has sophisticated measuring instruments and allows for the use of these by hospital/private practitioner referrals.  This must be paid for when the patient presents for the test.

Services Offered By The Clinic

  • Low Vision / Sub-Normal Vision
    • Assessment of provision of Low vision devices to patients whose vision cannot be improved with spectacles, contact lenses, medication or surgery.
    • Aids provided include: Magnifiers, Tele-microscopes, Microscopes, Loupe magnifiers, Mobility devices, etc

 

  • Paediatric Optometry / Children’s Vision
    • Specialised techniques and tests for children (infants to school-going age) including objective VA assessments, Objective refraction techniques, Perceptual skills assessment, etc.

 

  • Binocular Vision / Orthoptic Clinic
    • Anti-suppression therapy
    • Accommodation therapy
    • Convergence therapy
    • Occlusion therapy, etc.

 

  • Contact Lens Assessment
    • Keratoconic fitting
    • Rigid lens fitting
    • Soft lens fitting

 

  • General Clinic Assessment
    • Vision testing & Dispensing of spectacles

 

  • Vision Fields
    • Humphrey’s Visual Field Analysis

 

  • Colour Vision Assessment
    • Farnsworth Munsell D15 and 100 Hue

 

  • Corneal Topography
    • Assessment of corneal curvature.

 

  • Tonometry
    • Intra-ocular pressures (Glaucoma screening).