Twenty-five years on from the conflict, improvements in the infrastructure of the Falklands have resulted in better eye care services, reports Priscilla Brown
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Prior to the conflict, like much else in the Islands' health service, eye care provision was under the auspices of the Overseas Development Agency. The visiting optometrist would spend several weeks travelling on the Islands to examine patients and the spectacles dispensed were in line with those available under NHS regulations in the UK.
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