In January, we shared that students from Carle Illinois College of Medicine were providing free women’s health services at Avicenna Community Health Center. Now, they’ve helped establish a free eye care clinic there as well. Student directors Eric Moran, Bhargavee Gnanasambandam, and Ben Lee coordinated with area ophthamologists to set up the clinic, and they work with mentors Dr. Erika Person and Dr. Abu-Bakar Zafar to provide a wide range of services for people in the community. Those include comprehensive eye exams, glaucoma screening, glasses prescriptions, dilated eye exams, assessment of vision problems, and referrals and management of eye symptoms.
The students are also engaging in outreach within the community to let people know what is available to them.
The clinic is open on certain Saturdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m. The clinic’s website has specific schedule information, and a place to request an appointment. Avicenna Community Health Center is located at 201 W Kenyon in Champaign, and it is a free medical clinic for those who are underinsured or unisured.