LIBERIA

• Population: 5.5 million
• People living with vision loss: 0.48 million

IAPB Vision Atlas. (2025, May 22). IAPB Vision Atlas. https://visionatlas.iapb.org/  

Updated June 2024

We began working in Liberia in 2016. Located at the John F Kennedy Medical Centre in Monrovia, the Liberia Eye Centre is operated by our partner, the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI). We have supported the facility in expanding the capacity of its staff through a residency program and on-the-job training.

In 2024, we continued strengthening ophthalmic capacity through a residency program and on-the-job training. Six ophthalmologists and allied ophthalmic personnel, including occupational therapy technicians and optometrists, received specialized training. Four ophthalmologists from LVPEI’s campuses in India came to the centre to provide specialty eye care and mentor ophthalmologists. 

To provide eye health care to all, the eye centre uses a cost-recovery model. Those who can pay help subsidize services for those who cannot. In 2024, the centre screened 22,761 people, performed 1,674 eye surgeries and dispensed 1,206 pairs of eyeglasses.