About RMO

We opened the doors of Rashmi Mathur Optical on April 10th, 2000. Meena Chickoree was with me that first day and in time we were joined by Marsha Bhagan in 2003, Mala Bhudan in 2006 and Karishma Ramnath in 2024. Now we five make up the staff of RMO.

Meena, Marsha and Mala are all qualified Dispensing Opticians having obtained their diplomas from the National Academy of Opticianry in the US in the early years of the practice. As the practice got busier and offered more services, Karishma joined us as an Optometrist. We are all committed to Continuing Education and attend seminars and courses to keep up with our professional bodies here in Trinidad, in the U.S. and the U.K.

With every year, we pause to reflect on where we started and understand where we have come to. Eye examinations have evolved from the early days of reading a letter chart and choosing frames to all the benefits that new technology and skills allow us.

These include:

• Early detection of pathology using photos, OCT scans, visual field maps, topography.

• Using contact lenses to correct colour blindness (deficiencies)

• Fitting irregular corneas with scleral contact lenses (for those who have keratoconus orwho have had corneal grafts)

• Supplying the Pt. Lisas companies with safety eyewear

• Myopia control in children

• Orthokeratology

It is truly a privilege to have patients going back 25 years +, seeing their families, children growing up and having families of their own and still seeing us as their trusted eyecare team. We share the view that service to others, respectful interactions, keeping the joy in what we do, makes work not seem like work. For us as a team personally, we have gone from being work colleagues to family having shared so many of our lives chapters together.