The Ophthalmology & Optometry Centre at SinoUnited Health is one of the hospital's twelve featured centres. Every diagnosis and treatment decision is made by a specialist physician rather than by a technician, and the team holds national licences as physicians, nurses and optometrists, together with certification in orthokeratology lens fitting and glaucoma drainage device surgery.
Because the eye is where systemic disease often shows itself first — diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, autoimmune conditions — the centre works directly with our Endocrinology & Thyroid Centre and Heart & Vascular Centre. Retinal changes are reviewed alongside the blood sugar and blood pressure that caused them, not in isolation.
What We Treat
Cataract & Lens
Cataract surgery with modern intraocular lenses, including toric lenses that correct pre-existing astigmatism at the same time.
Glaucoma
Intraocular pressure monitoring, optic-nerve and visual-field assessment, and surgical options including glaucoma drainage device implantation.
Macula & Retina
Age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment and other retinal disease, tracked with fundus photography and OCT.
Diabetic Eye Disease
Dilated fundus screening and diabetic retinopathy follow-up, coordinated with your diabetes team.
Refractive Error & Myopia
Orthokeratology (ortho-K) fitting, myopia control for children, and assessment for refractive surgery.
Dry Eye & Ocular Surface
Dry-eye assessment and treatment for the gritty, watering, screen-tired eye.
Diagnostics in a Single Visit
A proper eye examination is not a vision test. The centre runs the full set of assessments in one appointment, so nothing that can be seen on imaging waits for a second trip:
- Visual acuity and refraction, including corrected acuity for surgical decisions.
- Slit-lamp examination of the anterior segment at high magnification.
- Intraocular pressure measurement.
- High-resolution fundus photography to document the retina over time.
- OCT, which shows thinning of the retinal nerve fibre layer and macular detail.
- Visual field testing, essential for glaucoma diagnosis and follow-up.
Left: an ophthalmology examination room with slit lamp and phoropter. Right: the children's eye clinic, where a picture chart replaces letters.
When Should You Be Screened?
Most sight-threatening eye disease in adults is silent until it is advanced: about half of glaucoma patients in developed countries do not know they have it, and early diabetic retinopathy produces no symptoms at all. Screening intervals follow the pattern below.
Everyone over 40
Fundus examination and intraocular pressure — once a year.
Anyone with diabetes
Dilated fundus examination every 6 months; every 3 months if control is poor.
High myopia
Targeted retinal screening every 6 months.
Family history of glaucoma
Pressure monitoring and optic-nerve assessment, as directed by the ophthalmologist.
In older adults, four symptoms should never be explained away as "just getting older": distorted vision (straight lines looking wavy), a shadow or curtain across the field of view, halos around lights at night, and glasses that keep needing to be changed.