Pacific Healthcare Holdings, the Singapore provider of integrated, multi-disciplinary specialist healthcare services, has the establishment of Pacific Implantable Lens Centre by its specialist eyecare unit.

The Implantable Lens Centre, located on Level 19, Paragon, will focus on the use of implantable lenses for vision correction in both the young and old.

Patients will be offered the option of the Implantable Contact Lenses (ICLTM) by STAAR Surgical. Pacific Healthcare says this is a safe and reliable procedure which provides high-definition vision and is a long-term solution for visual correction. The procedure was first done in Europe in 1993 and received approval by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) in 2005. About 200,000 ICLTM lenses have been implanted over the last 10 years.

Another procedure offered by Pacific Implantable Lens Centre is multifocal lens insertion to help those with a combination of shortsightedness and reading problems commonly seen as one approaches middle age.

The Eye Center is headed by Dr Cheryl Lee, an ophthalmic surgeon with more than 10 years of experience.