Ophthalmology

The Ophthalmology Department of Suzhou Kowloon Hospital was established in 2006. The hospital reports 15 beds, approximately 60,000 outpatient and emergency visits, 3,000 discharges and 1,500 operations annually. It lists 18 medical and nursing staff, including ten doctors, three chief or associate chief physicians and six attending physicians; eight doctors hold master's degrees.

The hospital describes equipment for cataract and vitreoretinal surgery, retinal imaging and lasers, optical coherence tomography, refraction, visual fields and dry-eye assessment. Services include care for ocular surface and corneal disease, cataract, glaucoma, strabismus, amblyopia, retinal disease and detachment; strabismus correction, ocular trauma repair, lacrimal duct intubation, limbal stem-cell and amniotic membrane transplantation, retinal angiography and laser treatment.

Cataract services include phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation, refractive cataract surgery and multifocal, trifocal and extended-depth-of-focus lenses. The hospital describes day surgery, 23-gauge minimally invasive vitrectomy for retinal detachment, ocular foreign bodies, diabetic retinal disease and macular conditions, and collaboration with Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital on eyelid and orbital surgery. It also lists refraction, orthokeratology and therapeutic contact lens fitting. The department reports six research projects, 40 papers and contributions to two books.