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recent years, the streets and alleys are the more open an optical shop more, and most of them offer a free optometric services. However, these glasses optometrist shop whether the qualifications, optometry and whether the results accurate? "Life Times" reporter visited a number of chain of optical shops in Beijing, as well as the famous city of Panjiayuan glasses and found that a lot of hidden problems.

and optical refraction of the three major issues

Question one: optometry National Taiwan Normal University for more than a qualification certificate. Reporter, one of the largest distributing center --- glasses glasses Panjiayuan Beijing City conducted a survey and found that there are usually several part-time post of Optometry. Reporters on the second floor of a shop pick your new glasses frames, just to the reporters about the situation of clerk frames Zhou Qiang (a pseudonym), deft short-sighted to take away the original's mirror, walked one machine, the upper and lower contact with the first two glasses contacts with reporters for less than 5 seconds, so he called journalists have been aware of myopia and astigmatism. After the Zhou Qiang letting reporters confirmed the computer optometry instrument myopia. Not 5 minutes, Zhou Qiang, to reporters out of the optometry prescription, prescriptions on the degree of myopia and astigmatism, respectively, and journalists at the Beijing Tongren Hospital, the day before testing the degree of difference between the 50 degrees.

"In our country, have received formal professional training in medical optometrist optometry simply rare. "The Ministry of Health Key Laboratory of myopia, director of Shanghai Municipal Quality Control Director of the Center Eye Eye Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, Fudan University Professor of Ophthalmology at Ren-Yuan Chu told reporters.

Chinese Medical Association Shanghai Municipal Optometry Group Optical Industry Association announced the domestic first "Optometry and needs of the environment report," said glasses around the store more than 1300 in Shanghai, with only senior optometry technician 4 Intermediate 198; employees in 67.5% of high school education, tertiary education while only 14.8%. Domestic 84.2% of the optical shop optometry staff, the only high school or even junior high school education. Professor Ren-Yuan Chu, said: "As far as I know, China Sun Yat-sen Medical College, Wenzhou Medical College, etc. Only a small number of schools offer undergraduate optometry profession. In recent years, some universities or even abolish the profession. "

Question 2: Give all of optometry are not more than 10 minutes. The reporters found that glasses in the Panjiayuan City, and everyone has a computer optometry equipment. Reporter asked some of them random optical shop, were told that as long as 56 minutes optometry, and even polished lens frame installation is most probably an hour.

Beijing Hospital, Ophthalmology Professor Xia Qun, director of physician tells reporters that the children, the rapid dilation points need 20-30 minutes, Bi Yanjing at least 15 minutes, optometry needs 10 minutes. In other words, a child optometry at least 50 minutes to 1 hour; adult optometry needs 10-20 minutes; old reading glasses fitting the time needed for much longer.

However, the reporter found in the survey, all the optical shops optometry, when the children, are not dilated in this aspect. In this regard, Chinese PLA General Hospital, director of the Center physician and optical Professor Huang Houbin given away the secret: "They do not prescribe the right, of course, not possible to use drugs to dilation of the child. "