Cataract Center

The Cataract Center was awarded the honorary titles of National Worker Pioneer Collective for 2012 and Tianjin Worker Pioneer Collective, and in 2017 it received the honorary title of “Advanced Collective of the National Health and Family Planning System”. The Cataract Center is actively engaged in public welfare programs: the medical staff of the Center actively take part in charitable activities such as voluntary cataract surgery, and in 2013 and 2014 participated in the Ministry of Health's “Health Express Brightness Action” — free cataract surgery for the poor, performing free cataract restorative surgery for more than 6,000 cataract patients in Ningxia, Fujian, Guangxi, Henan and other provinces and municipalities. The surgical preparation area of the Center is located on the seventh floor of the inpatient building of our hospital, with more than 20 beds and more than 100 daytime observation chairs, and an average daily surgical volume of more than 150 cases; patients can choose inpatient surgery or day surgery according to their own condition, which greatly improves the patient's medical experience. It has an independent outpatient department and examination equipment, a comfortable consultation environment, efficient and accurate ocular examinations and complete facilities, and it is open as normal all day on Saturdays and Sundays as well as on public holidays, making it a department with no holidays throughout the year. Department specialty: since the Cataract Center of Tianjin Eye Hospital was established in February 2007, the Center has possessed strong technical strength, with clinical techniques at the world's forefront, a certain academic standing and reputation both at home and abroad, and advanced examination equipment. It has rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult cases such as congenital cataract, complicated cataract, post-vitrectomy cataract and combined glaucoma-cataract surgery. It actively participates in charitable voluntary cataract surgery activities and has also achieved certain results in scientific research. Department staffing: there are currently 7 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians and 9 attending physicians, including 1 doctoral supervisor and 4 master's supervisors; 12 members hold doctoral degrees, and 1 is a retired expert re-employed by the hospital. All operating surgeons have experience of more than ten thousand operations, their clinical techniques are at the world's forefront, and they enjoy a certain academic standing and reputation both at home and abroad. Department programs: adhering to the concept of “the healer's compassionate heart”, the medical and nursing staff of the Cataract Center have rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult cases such as congenital cataract, complicated cataract, combined glaucoma-cataract surgery, traumatic cataract, cataract with high myopia and the fluid-filled eye after vitrectomy; building on traditional restorative cataract surgery, they carry out aberration-guided personalized functional intraocular lens surgery, coaxial micro-incision cataract surgery and others, achieving personalized and precise treatment for patients with different lens diseases, and are at the domestic leading and internationally advanced level in the diagnosis, treatment and surgical procedures of cataract and lens-related diseases. Department equipment: the Center possesses a variety of examination devices, including an anterior segment analyzer, an intraocular lens biometer, a corneal endothelial cell counter, an ITrace aberrometer and an optical coherence tomographer, safeguarding precision medicine. Through public tendering, the hospital has introduced phacoemulsification equipment and intraocular lenses from well-known companies in various countries; in addition to conventional soft foldable intraocular lenses, it also offers various blue-light-filtering, aspheric and multifocal intraocular lenses, toric intraocular lenses for astigmatism correction and refractive-correcting intraocular lenses, meeting the needs of different patients for improved visual quality. Public welfare programs: every year, several hundred free cataract surgeries are performed for disabled and impoverished people in Tibet, Qinghai, Yunnan, Xinjiang and other provinces and municipalities. The Center has taken part in Tianjin's medical assistance activities in Gansu, Congo-Brazzaville, Ethiopia and other places, promoting the development of domestic medical standards and international friendly relations through practical work, and deepening the country's support for “Belt and Road” medical and health undertakings. Every year, nearly 300 cataract surgeries are performed for model workers, disabled and impoverished people of Tianjin. Every year, our hospital's public welfare fund is used to reduce or waive surgical fees for impoverished people, winning unanimous praise from the general public. The Cataract Center cooperates with the Tianjin Women and Children's Health Center to carry out screening examinations for congenital cataract, screening more than 200 infants and young children each year and confirming more than 100 cases of congenital cataract. Our Center helps children with congenital cataract in our city to apply for funding from the Disabled Persons' Federation, waiving their surgical fees and reducing the burden on their families; within three years, several hundred congenital cataract surgeries have been completed cumulatively, including more than 100 cataract surgeries funded by the Tianjin Disabled Persons' Federation.