DEFECTOS REFRACTÍVOS EN USUARIOS ATENDIDOS EN EL PATRONATO MUNICIPAL SANTA ANA-MANABÍ MAYO – OCTUBRE 2009

Abstract

Being the optometrist leaves fundamental of the team of health and also a professional in their environment whose academic profile and professional is clear and objective, also, the optometry represents the first one it lines of defense against the blindness, since 90% of patients that present problems of visual character is of refractive type and 10% they present pathologies, which are derived the oculist preside over the team of ocular health, being born is born this way the necessity that one day not very distant the professional in Optometry works in the entities you publish from health to national level. The goal puts of this thesis, it is to determine the different ametropias, to guide about the importance of carrying out periodic checkups of the visual sharpness, to prevent the risk of presenting damages irrevers. Also to give the corrective eyeglasseses in a gratuitous way to the patients of the community that presents ametropias. The Municipal Patronage of the Canton Santa Ana, they supported in the logistical part, while us as egresados of Optometry our daremosa contribution with the valuation of the different ametropias that you/they are in the patients and for ende the delivery corresponding of the corrective eyeglasseses for the residents of this canton so needy. In the Municipal Patronage it was assisted a population of 588 patient, and corrective eyeglasseses were given to 527 people; the remaining patients didn't present ametropias. With this work it is hoped to favor the residents but needful of this Canton in their daily activity, providing a good vision, as much in remote vision as in next vision, facilitating the development in their working activities. Carrying out the delivery of 527 corrective eyeglasseses in the diverse ametropias found in assisted people of all the ages and sex; we have received the biggest satisfaction thanks to that we could help a lot of needy people and that they don't also have the necessary resources to pay the value of the corrective eyeglasseses. as well as we receive the recognition and gratefulness of the Mrs. Director of the Municipal Patronage of the Canton Santa Ana and of all those you appear in person that they received our visual attention. 15 Our community work concludes satisfactorily, thanking the collaboration of the community in general that was assisted in the Municipal Patronage, and to its Director Mrs. Engineer, also the gratefulness to our Tribunal of Thesis for the offered support.