Section 2: Functions of the Centre

(1) The functions of the Centre shall be to provide as part of the hospital and specialist services, services in connection with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases or defects of the eye, supply of optical appliances and other supplementary ophthalmic services.
(2) The Centre shall have power -
(a) to provide diagnostic, curative, promotive and rehabilitative ophthalmic services;
(b) to provide ambulatory and domiciliary ophthalmic treatment, employing the services of ophthalmologists and other medical practitioners;
(c) to provide facilities for the clinical training of ophthalmologists;
(d) to provide facilities for the training of ophthalmic and dispensing opticians, ophthalmic nurses, orthoptists and ophthalmic technicians;
(e) to create facilities for research into all aspects of ophthalmology, that is to say, visual, clinical and experimental;
(f) to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic ophthalmic instruments and appliances better suited to the practice of ophthalmology in Nigeria.
(3)
For the purposes of the discharge of its functions under the foregoing provisions of this section, the Centre may-
(a) arrange periodic conferences, seminars, study groups and like activities in ophthalmology;
(b) advise the Government of the Federation or of a State on all matters relating to defects and diseases of the eye and the prevention of blindness;
(c) offer such assistance to ophthalmic hospitals or units in various parts of the Federation, as the Board may deem necessary;
(d) do anything in connection with or incidental to the functions conferred on it by this Act.