Roy Davis
Golden, CO, October 6, 2011: Optos is participating in the World Sight Day ‘Company’ Challenge by making a donation to Optometry Giving Sight for each Optomap retinal screening image taken globally on World Sight Day, October 13.
“As a global company focused on protecting eyesight, Optos is proud to help raise awareness about preventing blindness by participating in the World Sight Day ‘Company’ Challenge,” said Roy Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Optos. “Routine eye exams, including a thorough screening of the retina using Optomap images, are important to maintaining vision with early detection of eye disease. We are pleased to make this donation to help underserved communities worldwide access sustainable eye care.”
The Chair of Optometry Giving Sight, Mary Anne Murphy, OD, said she was greatly encouraged by Optos’ support of the World Sight Day ‘Company’ Challenge. “We are so grateful for this generous donation provided by Optos.
With the help of Optos, and other companies and practitioners who have signed up for the World Sight Day Challenge, Optometry Giving Sight is funding sustainable vision care programs worldwide and bringing the gift of vision to those most in need,” she said.
Optomap is a screening tool for the early detection of disease or abnormalities in the posterior segment of the eye. An Optomap scan is a painless and non-invasive method of determining retinal health; the scan creates high definition, digital images of the retina that are viewed by practitioners, and their patients, during an exam. The Optomap scan is useful technology when diagnosing immediate retinal problems and also serves as a baseline tool with future exams to determine if any retinal changes have occurred. When compared with ophthalmoscopy, Optomap allows practitioners to view large, full images of the retina as opposed to viewing only a small portion of the retina with an ophthalmoscope. To learn more about Optos and Optomap images please visit www.optos.com.
For further information about the World Sight Day “Company” Challenge, including fun ideas on how your staff can raise funds on World Sight Day, please call 1-888-OGS- GIVE in the U.S. or 1-800-585-8265 ext. 4 in Canada, or visit the Optometry Giving Sight website www.givingsight.org 85% of donations to Optometry Giving Sight from eye care professionals, optical staff, employees and patients go directly to support projects that provide vision care, local training, and infrastructure support to people in underserved communities.
To learn more about the World Sight Day Challenge please visit www.givingsight.org or call 1-888-OGS-GIVE in the U.S. or 1-800-585-8265 ext. 4 in Canada. You may also contact us via email at usa.givingsight.org.
About Optometry Giving Sight
Optometry Giving Sight is a joint initiative of the World Optometry Foundation, the International Centre for Eyecare Education and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. Global and national industry sponsors include the Brien Holden Vision Institute,CIBA VISION, CooperVision, Marchon Eyewear Inc., Vision Source!, ABB Concise, AllAboutVision, Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions VisionCare Group, Transitions Optical, First Vision Media Group, Inc. and International Vision Expo & Conference. Optometry Giving Sight® is a tax-exempt organization under section 501(c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code.
About World Sight Day
World Sight Day is an initiative of VISION 2020: The Right to Sight and is supported by the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, and non-government organizations with the shared goal of eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020 in order to give all people in the world the right to sight. This year, World Sight Day will be held on Thursday, October 13.
About the World Sight Day Challenge
The World Sight Day Challenge is a major fundraising campaign coordinated by Optometry Giving Sight and is designed to raise funds for projects that provide vision care, local training, and infrastructure support for people who are blind or vision impaired due to uncorrected refractive error – simply the need for an eye exam and a pair of glasses.
Optometrists are invited to participate by:
- Donating their eye exam fees on October 13 (or any other day in October).
- Making a personal or practice donation.
- Planning a practice celebration and inviting patient donations over the month of October.
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