[Improving the organization of primary health care for invalids with impaired vision].

The results of the work of 6 health posts at electrical engineering plants of the Ukrainian Society of treh Blind are presented. The number of attendencies for invalids with eyesight disorders constituted 29.5 annually, for those with good eyesight it was 6.7. Time losses for a curative and diagnostic consultation and provision of medical care to invalids of the Ist group with eyesight disorders exceeded the time necessary for rendering care to those who could see by 31-34%. Feldshers spent 43.6% of their working time and medical nurses 65.3% on medical care. Attendencies associated with psychic disorders were listed as one of the biggest health problems in the disease pattern of the blind and those with weak eyesight, 91.1% of psychic cases being attributed to vegeto-vascular dystonia, diseases of the circulatory system, injuries and their aftereffects. A set of proposals was developed, thus it became possible to regulate the work of the health personnel of health posts at the enterprises belonging to the Society of the Blind.