[Some characteristics and aspects of a pediatric eye service]

The authors share experience of organization of work in the children ophthalmological service in Krivoy Rog and adjacent countryside. The work in the Center of Eye Protection in Children is analysed, and the structure of Children Ophthalmological Service in a big industrial town is subjoined. Attention is drawn to a primary link of Children Ophthalmological Service--an eye room of a territory hospital, a central district hospital, divisional pediatric, preschool and school networks. Arguments are presented concerning essential influence of correct organization of work of this link on effectiveness of dispensarization of children with eye pathology. A question is raised about the necessity to consolidate the primary link of Children Ophthalmological Service, the lacking of which cannot make the whole system of children ophthalmological aid to be of full value.