Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery (Msics)

Abstract

ABSTRACT:In developing country like India, the primary goal is to provide all the benefits to common man at minimal possible cost in visual rehabilitation of cataract. In achieving this goal, the surgery (MICS) described in this article can be extremely helpful. It has almost all the advantages of phacoemulsification, at the same time it is inexpensive. The wound construction, various techniques of nucleus delivery in MSICS are described precisely. This may stimulate the reader towards this surgery, which is the only way to tackle the huge backlog of cataract in developing countries, particularly in India, where 60% of rural people live in less than thirty rupees a day.