Uganda’s biggest referral hospitals lack eye experts to screen premature babies on blindness risk
Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) in two of the country’s biggest referral facilities are operating on babies without an eye expert to assess for Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), a condition that causes blindness among premature babies. In a new study done by researchers at Makerere University and released on Wednesday, experts found that Retinopathy of Prematurity causes…
