Organizational skills

• ​Listing and keeping track of all equipment in the hospital

• Maintaining adequate stock of essential supplies for instruments (bulbs,fuses, paper rolls etc.)

• Developing procedures for keeping track of the entire maintenance process (care maintenance and repair) including warranty and maintenance contracts.

• Maintaining catalogues instruction and service manuals of the instruments

• Training the users of instruments on the various DOs and DON’Ts

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General maintenance skills

• Trouble shooting and diagnosing the problems in instruments reported to be not working

• Rectifying faults that can be handled locally and properly communicating the problem as precisely as possible to the supplier/outside service agency

• Planning for maintenance activity in an eye-camp site away from the hospital

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Skills relating to maintenance of electrical and electronic instruments

• Using multimeter

• Identifying components and knowing their characteristics

• Soldering and building simple electrical/electronic circuits

• Identifying electrical fuses in instruments and understanding their rating

• Calculating the power ratings of instruments to provide (I) proper fuses, (II) proper transformer or voltage stabilizer or UPS as required

• Changing bulbs in ophthalmoscope,retinoscope,slit lamp, microscope, lensometer, keratometer and fundus camera

• Locating electrical faults in equipment like torchlight,surgical lamp,foot switch etc. and rectifying the same​

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Skills relating to maintenance of optical instruments

• Cleaning optical surfaces (mirrors, lenses and prisms)

• Dismantling, cleaning and assembling the following instruments ophthalmoscopes (direct and indirect), retinoscope, slit lamp

• Carrying out preventive maintenance on other optical instruments: microscopes (operating and laboratory) lensometer, keratometer and fundus camera

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Skills relating to maintenance of mechanical parts of equipment

• Locating and rectifying faults in castor wheels of equipment

• Locating and rectifying faults in movement of table tops of slit lamp,fundus camera and other instruments

• Lubricating necessary parts

• Sharpening and repairing surgical instruments

• Adapting damaged or worn-out surgical instruments for other use

• Checking the calibration and rectifying faults in any in schiotz tonometer. Checking leaks if any and fixing them and topping mercury in BP meters. Checking leaks if any in cryo-system and fixing the same

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Relevant Knowledge

• Eye and its parts

• Common refraction defects and the remedy.

• Common eye diseases and their treatment.

• Working principles of the following instruments that they will be handling:

- Ophthalmoscope (direct & indirect)

- Retinoscope

- Slit lamp

- Microscope (operating & laboratory)

- Lensometer

- Keratometer

- Cryo system

• Working principles of the other instruments that they come across in the hospital

- A & B Scan

- Field analyser

- Laser systems