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The Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas
(ESG )
The Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas (E.S.G.)
was registered on 23rd October, 2000 as a non-governmental Society,
interested in the field of glaucoma as an educational body, both for doctors
and patients in order to raise the standard of knowledge about this disease
and improve ways of treatment by encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to
sponsor the meetings and to supply the necessary recommendations for
the appropriate lines of treatment to be made available to general
doctors.
There are currently 601
registered Members of the Society.
Aims:
The interest of this
Society is mainly educational, for the purpose of informing young doctors and
patients alike, about this enigmatic disease.
Our aim is to change the working practice of new
doctors joining the Specialty of Ophthalmology with an interest in the
sub-specialty, Glaucoma.
The aims of the Society, include hands on training,
lectures, seminars and symposia together with panel discussions for doctors
to present them with skills in glaucoma management.
Tour of Egypt by the Board:
The Board of the
Society have toured Egypt from North to South, having addressed doctors at
twenty meetings and have held six main Congresses.
Subscriptions
We subscribe to the International Glaucoma
Review which is issued on a quarterly basis.
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