Primary Eye care Primary eye care (PEC) is an integral part of comprehensive eye care. It is targeted not only towards preventing blindness and visual impairment, but also towards providing services to redress ocular morbidity. PEC is a frontline activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious medical condition. Primary eye care is delivered in many different ways. However, it all aims at making eye care services available within reach of the community. In the long run this allows each better penetration of services and reduced cost for the patient. Components of primary eye care  Eye health education  Symptom identification  Visual acuity measurement  Basic eye examination  Diagnosis  Timely referral Secondary Eye care Includes acute care • necessary treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness, • Injury or other eye health condition. • Such as management of diseases like cataract, glaucoma, trachoma etc at secondary level i.e. hospitals. Tertiary Eye Care Carries specialized consultative health care, • usually for in patients and on referral from a primary or secondary health professional, • In a facility that has personnel and facilities for advanced medical investigation and treatment, such as tertiary referral hospitals. • Centralized at a major health care complex. • A medical teaching hospitals, eye hospitals or eye centers.

1. Maryam Fida
Optometry and Orthoptics
Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Eye Care Services

2. Primary Eye care
Primary eye care (PEC) is an integral part of comprehensive eye care.
It is targeted not only towards preventing blindness and visual impairment, but also towards
providing services to redress ocular morbidity.
PEC is a frontline activity, providing care and identifying disease before it becomes a serious
medical condition.
Primary eye care is delivered in many different ways. However, it all aims at making eye care
services available within reach of the community. In the long run this allows each better
penetration of services and reduced cost for the patient.
Components of primary eye care
 Eye health education
 Symptom identification
 Visual acuity measurement
 Basic eye examination
 Diagnosis
 Timely referral
Secondary Eye care
Includes acute care
 necessary treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness,
 Injury or other eye health condition.
 Such as management of diseases like cataract, glaucoma, trachoma etc at secondary
level i.e. hospitals.
Tertiary Eye Care
Carries specialized consultative health care,
 usually for in patients and on referral from a primary or secondary health professional,
 In a facility that has personnel and facilities for advanced medical investigation and
treatment, such as tertiary referral hospitals.
 Centralized at a major health care complex.
 A medical teaching hospitals, eye hospitals or eye centers.