The Ophthalmology Unit at Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya, provides advanced ophthalmological services to the region's inhabitants, encompassing almost all areas of ophthalmological diseases.
The Unit provides medical services of the highest standards in world ophthalmology, and amiably and efficiently cares for its patients and their companions.
Unit doctors actively partake in many conferences in Israel and abroad, and keep themselves current on global advancements.
Procedures Taking Place in the Unit Include almost all Areas of Ophthalmology, and Include:
Surgeries at the operating room equipped with modern state-of-the-art instruments - Most surgical procedures are cataract operations. The Unit completes hundreds of operations per year, which are carried out by its highly-experienced medical specialists. Surgeries make use of state-of-the-art techniques, and are carried out using local anesthetics and on an outpatient basis. Additional operations are carried out by specific medical specialists, and these include glaucoma operations and laser-assisted glaucoma operations, Strabismus surgery, plastic ocular surgery, which includes eyelids, orbits and corneal surgery, and urgent operations in cases of trauma or severe injury.
The clinic is equipped with field of vision testing instruments, with a device for examining the cornea and fundus known as OCT, as well as laser instruments for treating glaucoma, post-cataract surgery opacity, retinal diseases including diabetes, and more. The clinic provides counseling on ophthalmological diseases of all kinds.
Despite the fact that most of the Unit's activity is in an outpatient setting so that the patient may return immediately to their home with full functioning, the Unit may host hospitalized patients as needed.
The Unit is permanently manned by an ophthalmologist for treating urgent cases at all times.
In addition, the Unit is involved in research, community services, guidance and overseas medical expeditions, which include carrying out operations and instructing foreign ophthalmologists. The Unit maintains relations with several foreign doctors who visit the Unit.