RESEARCH ARTICLE
Changing patterns of cataract services in North-West Nigeria: 2005–2016 Nasiru Muhammad1, Mohammed Dantani Adamu1, Mpyet Caleb2,3,4, Nuhu Mohammed Maishanu5, Aliyu Mohammed Jabo6, Muhammad Mansur Rabiu7, Covadonga Bascaran8, Sunday Isiyaku3, Allen Foster8* 1 Department of Ophthalmology, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria, 2 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria, 3 Sightsavers, Kaduna, Nigeria, 4 Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology International, Division of Ophthalmology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 5 Sokoto state eye health programme, Ministry of Health, Sokoto, Nigeria, 6 Helen Keller International, Abuja, Nigeria, 7 Prevention of Blindness Union, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 8 Clinical Research Department, International Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Abstract Purpose
OPEN ACCESS Citation: Muhammad N, Adamu MD, Caleb M, Maishanu NM, Jabo AM, Rabiu MM, et al. (2017) Changing patterns of cataract services in NorthWest Nigeria: 2005–2016. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0183421. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0183421 Editor: James Fielding Hejtmancik, National Eye Institute, UNITED STATES Received: February 24, 2017 Accepted: August 3, 2017
This study was conducted to assess the impact of the eye care programme on cataract blindness and cataract surgical services in Sokoto, Nigeria over a 12 year period 2005– 2016.
Methods Data from the 2005 population based cross-sectional study of blindness in Sokoto state was re-analysed to obtain baseline estimates of the prevalence of cataract blindness and cataract surgical coverage for persons 50 years and over in Wurno health zone. A population based survey of a representative sample of persons 50 years and over in Wurno health zone was conducted in July 2016. Data on eye health workforce, infrastructure and cataract surgical services between 2005 and 2016 were analysed from relevant documents.
Published: August 17, 2017 Copyright: © 2017 Muhammad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are available from Dryad (doi:10.5061/dryad.13bp2). Funding: The 2005 and 2016 surveys were funded by Sightsavers, UK. Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Results In 2005 the unadjusted prevalence of bilateral cataract blindness (
