For information about the services at the Sekwa Eye Hospital, please click on the links below:
Comprehensive Eye Care
The Comprehensive Eye Service provides basic diagnostic, medical, and surgical services. The Comprehensive Eye Service also acts as an entry point to Sekwa subspecialty care for patients needing specific additional medical or surgical services.The services include:
- Screening and treatment for common eye diseases. The eye physicians perform routine eye exams and treatment for common eye diseases and refer to the subspecialty services when needed.
- Spectacle and contact lens prescriptions.
- Evaluation of patients who may have visual loss or complaints but do not know the diagnosis.
- Referrals to specialists in other medical disciplines, such as endocrinologists for individuals with diabetes.
The Service is staffed by highly trained resident physicians under the supervision of staff physicians on the Comprehensive Eye Service.
The Retinal Service Unit
The Retinal Service Unit at Sekwa Eye Hospital has some of the best retina specialists in the country on its staff, dedicating to the treatment and study of diseases that affect the retina and vitreous.Typical conditions treated at this service include:
- retinal detachment
- macular hole
- epiretinal membrane
- diabetic retionpathy
- trauma
- vitreous hemorrhage
- age-related macular degeneration
Glaucoma Service
The Glaucoma Service at Sekwa is dedicated to the care and treatment of people who have glaucoma, equipped by sophisticated, state-of-the-art diagnostic facilities include computerized visual field testing, optic nerve imaging, and other specialized imaging modalities. The Glaucoma Service is distinguished by its expertise in re-opening the closed angle of anterior chamber in angle-closure glaucoma by using the unique technology developed by the expertise of the hospital. The unit is also conducting research on glaucoma to gain a better understanding of these diseases.
Cataract Medical Center
The Cataract Service is the hub of Sekwa Eye Hospital, providing surgical evaluation and management for all kinds of cataract. The cataract service at Sekwa is distinguished by its significantly low incidents of after-cataract or posterior capsule opacification (below 1%) as compared to the overall incidents (about 30%) in the area of cataract surgery, benefiting from the most skilled and experienced surgeons in the hospital.
As a regional center for eye care in the greater Beijing area, the hospital receives referrals from local community hospitals and general hospitals. Patients from all over the region of the greater Beijing area may also come to Sekwa directly for cataract surgery without referrals, as authorized by the government insurance authority.
Appointment for the cataract service is highly recommended, since a complete eye examination for cataract surgery requires time. Sunglasses are advised for use after a routine examination. Therefore, please make sure that you allow adequate time in your schedule, and bring a pair of sunglasses with you.
Functional Vision Center
Visual service helps people with good or relatively good visual acuity but with various visual complains to enhance the quality or comfortableness of their visual ability.
The Visual Rehabilitation Service provides methods or apparatus to enhance the quality of life for those people whose eyesight cannot be improved through medical or surgical treatments. The Service offers these patients the opportunity to make the best possible use of their remaining vision through a comprehensive rehabilitative process.
Vision Rehabilitation Services
Traditionally, the visually impaired have often been considered as blind, despite the fact that over 90% retain some residual sight capacity. Many visually impaired who could have learned to use their sight are instead taught blind techniques.
In 2009 Sekwa formed a cooperation with the Beijing Disabled Person Federation for the development of a Visual Rehabilitation Program. The initiative has received technical support from the Norwegian Company Provista Innovation (www.provista.no) and financial support from Innovation Norway. The main aim is to develop a research and development framework for service provision in vision rehabilitation. This initiative came out of the understanding that unlike rehabilitation services for hearing impaired China was totally lacking in organized comprehensive high quality rehabilitation service for the visually impaired.
ProVista Innovation (AS) of Norway in close cooperation with Sekwa has developed a concept for Low Vision Clinics that can provide the visually impaired with technologies and aids that enable those with greatly reduced vision to function at work and in daily life. The aim of the project is to develop a business model based on a start-up kit (the Low Vision Box) for specialists with both physical and digital products and services to help start and run a sight clinic. The idea is based on observed user needs, and in this Design Pilot project users will become more involved in the development process.
