Indigenous Children Eye Exam project expands to Saskatchewan – Hamilton Health Sciences

June 15, 2023

The Hamilton-based Indigenous Children Eye Exam (ICEE) project has expanded to Saskatchewan. Inspired by a Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) eye doctor, the original program is offered in remote northern Ontario communities served by the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority.

The project is the vision of Dr. Kourosh Sabri, a pediatric ophthalmologist at HHS McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH). Sabri and a small team of eye-care specialists from the Hamilton area started visiting remote northern Ontario communities several years ago to provide vision screening and eye exams to Indigenous children and teens under the age of 16.

“Good vision is vital to a child’s healthy development and success in school,” says Sabri. Yet only 15 to 16 per cent of Canadian children under the age of six have had an eye exam. And for Indigenous children and youth in isolated communities it’s especially challenging.”

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