{"id":601,"date":"2011-04-26T12:53:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-01-25T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:51:42","slug":"sample-page-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/?page_id=601","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of <strong>The Retina Foundation of Canada<\/strong> is to cure retinal disease and preserve vision.<br \/>\nThe goals of the Foundation are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To improve patient care<\/li>\n<li>To ensure the availability of qualified specialists<\/li>\n<li>To promote on-going education\u00a0and opportunities for exchange amongst professionals<\/li>\n<li>To promote scientific research<\/li>\n<li>To promote public awareness and early detection of retinal diseases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-575\" src=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/retinaHealthDay-IMG_4890.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Objectives of the Foundation are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To provide information to retinal patients.<\/li>\n<li>To promote and facilitate the purchase and implementation of state of the art technology<\/li>\n<li>To promote the use of telemedicine to better serve remote areas<\/li>\n<li>To help eliminate obstacles to care<\/li>\n<li>To fund fellowships to attract more retinal specialists<\/li>\n<li>To promote conferences of retinal specialists<\/li>\n<li>To fund clinical research projects<\/li>\n<li>To promote research into retinal diseases and treatments<\/li>\n<li>To create a web site for public awareness of retina disease and to enhance web based communication<\/li>\n<li>To produce and distribute informational material for display at the offices of family physicians, optometrists, opticians and others<\/li>\n<li>To promote public events for increased awareness and for fund-raising<\/li>\n<li>To develop a media and government communication strategy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of The Retina Foundation of Canada is to cure retinal disease and preserve vision. The goals of the Foundation are: To improve patient care To ensure the availability of qualified specialists To promote on-going education\u00a0and opportunities for exchange amongst professionals To promote scientific research To promote public awareness and early detection of retinal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/?page_id=601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/retinacanada.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}