Viewpoint Specialist Eye Centre has celebrated its 10 years anniversary with series of events such as essay competition for the students of Baptist High School, Obanikoro, Lagos.

The essay completion aimed at promoting English language and the reading culture among secondary school students. As well as improving their academic performance as the winners went go home with cash prizes.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founding Director, of the centre, Dr. Agatha Afolabi, said the essay competition, was sponsored by the family of the renowned English scholar and the author of the brighter grammar series, Late Ma Phebean Ogundipe, which was the second in the series of annual essay competitions in public secondary schools in Lagos.

She said a panel of experts from the ophthalmic group practice and other relevant organizations judged the essays.

She said: “The Ogundipe family also donated books and educational equipment to the junior and senior categories of the school to facilitate the teaching and learning of English Language in the schools”.

The anniversary celebration also featured a symposium titled artificial intelligence in eye care. As eye care expert at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, Lagos, Prof. Bola Adekoya, described artificial intelligence as the theory and development of computer systems in order to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

She said using artificial intelligence in health sector especially in eye care could help in early dictation of eye diseases and also aid keeping medical records keeping as well.

Adekoya said in health sector because of high number of people affected by eye diseases. There is limited material resources, limited human resources therefore incorporation of artificial intelligence with human personnel eye care experts could be able to deliver effectively to the teeming population in a faster manner and accurate.

She said: “Because there are high data out there human being cannot be able to process. However, using artificial intelligence we can be able to provide more efficient healthcare service to the patients”.

Chairman of Viewpoint Specialist Eye Centre Mr. David Sauta, said the world is fast developing therefore, Nigerians need to meet up with international standard by using artificial intelligence to run healthcare services especially in eye care.

He encouraged upcoming eye care specialists to invest more in educating the younger generation about the knowledge and importance of eye care service as this can improve their sight in general.