Heidelberg Engineering is extending its partnership with sight-saving charity Orbis, to help improve eye health services in underserved areas.
Building on their successful collaboration in 2024, the med-tech imaging and data solutions company will:
Doctors and nurses from around the world can take advantage of the free courses and seminars via Cybersight
90% of the 1.1 billion people living with vision loss and blindness reside in low- and middle-income countries. Cybersight is dedicated to providing eye care teams with free access to training, knowledge, and other resources, no matter their location. In 2024, four specialist live webinars were delivered in partnership with Heidelberg Engineering via the platform and this year, a new series of supported sessions will empower thousands of eye care professionals worldwide and elevate the quality of eye care in their communities.
The Heidelberg Engineering SPECTRALIS® is demonstrated on board the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
Focusing on how optical coherence tomography (OCT) - doctors use this to check for eye problems by seeing the layers inside your eye, which helps them find issues like glaucoma or macular degeneration early - can enhance the diagnosis, management, and treatment of a range of ophthalmic conditions, the sessions were joined over 2050 times by eye care professionals last year. This included audiences from conflict-affected areas such as Afghanistan, Somalia and Ukraine, where access to learning and mentorship services can be severely hampered.
Four virtual training sessions will take place over the course of 2025. The first webinar is:
Details for the next sessions will be released in due course on the Cybersight website.
An Orbis trained healthcare worker demonstrating how The Heidelberg Engineering SPECTRALIS® can be used to check eye health
Heidelberg Engineering’s strategic support also allowed Orbis to complete its research project into retinoblastoma, a childhood cancer affecting 9,000 children annually. Key outcomes from the study, published in JCO Global Oncology, included:
Dr. Hunter Cherwek
Vice President, Clinical Services and Technologies Orbis International
“At Orbis, we believe that everyone, no matter where they live, deserves access to quality eye care. Our partnership with Heidelberg Engineering is instrumental as it allows us to collaborate on sharing information about cutting-edge technology and expertise with eye care professionals around the world including in communities with limited resources. Together, we are not only improving skills, but also working to save sight and transform futures.”
Kfir Azoulay
Managing Director Heidelberg Engineering
“We are honoured to support our partner’s enduring commitment to eliminating avoidable blindness by expanding access to training and technology in eye care for all, regardless of location.”
Orbis has been transforming lives through the prevention and treatment of avoidable blindness for over four decades. With a network of partners across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, the charity is working to make eye care available everywhere, for everyone, so that no one has to experience the consequences of avoidable blindness and sight loss.
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