Prioritise your eye health and prevent avoidable blindness! It’s Eye Care Awareness Month (20 September to 17 October). This is a month which is commemorated each year to encourage conversations about the importance of eye care, as well as the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness. Did you know that 75% of all cases...
Happy New Year, from all of us, here at The Eye Centre! It’s World Glaucoma Week (6-12 March), a shared and highly successful initiative that has run for the past 10 years, and we are eager to support and spread awareness. World Glaucoma Week is made possible by the World Glaucoma Association and the...
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Greetings From The Eye Centre! Just like that, the first half of 2021 has come and gone, and what a busy first half of the year it’s been! We’ve been innovating here at The Eye Centre and are proud to announce that our resident oculoplastic surgeon, Dr Mpopi Lenake, is now part of the team offering Mohs Surgery in Somerset...
Happy New Year from The Eye Centre! With 2020 safely in our rearview mirrors, it’s time to celebrate how far we’ve come! As a community, we banded together to flatten the curve of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and we’re confident that we can do so again now that we are facing this second...
Happy Holidays, from all of us, here at The Eye Centre! As 2020 draws to a close, I think we can all agree that it has been an unprecedented and unpredictable year. With COVID-19 claiming not only lives, but livelihoods, it is important to us, now more than ever, to thank you for your...
Temporary Service Disruption The Ophthalmological Society of South Africa (OSSA) has urged all ophthalmologists to cease providing all treatment other than urgent and emergency care with immediate effect. Our practice is going to adhere to these guidelines to safeguard the health of our patients, staff and the community at large. For the next two...
What’s New in Glaucoma Managementat The Eye Centre? We are excited to introduce new glaucoma treatment modalities that are now available at The Eye Centre. SELECTIVE LASER TRABECULOPLASTY (SLT) Selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT) is a laser procedure that lowers the intraocular pressure in specific cases of glaucoma, e.g. when the medications do not lower...
More Than Meets The Eye Our new informative and user-friendly website has all the information you need to guide you with any of your eye-related queries. There is now an online booking form that allows easy appointment scheduling with our specialists. Meet our surgeons Our highly specialised ophthalmic surgeons are committed to serving the...
