Blindness of 80% can be avoided
Posted on: 11/Dec/2012 2:21:48 PM
For eliminating blindness doctors conference was held ‘Media and its role in eliminating blindness’ on Monday.they added in that India was home to the largest number of blind in the world with 12 million blind people and 80 per cent of it was avoidable. Social barriers and misconceptions are the biggest obstacles in staving off blindness,but it is curable.lack of awareness paves the way for leading cause of avoidable blindness is cataract. And other health problems.
To create better awareness among the public through media, Vision 2020: The Right to Sight – India, an NGO, in collaboration with National Programme for Prevention of Blindness, Union ministry of health and family welfare held a day-long programme at Shankar Nethralaya. Dr S.S. Badrinath, founder of Shankara Nethralaya said at the function.the chief doctor said that lack of the media to reach out to a wider audience. Experts gathered at the programme said that most of the vision problems were avoidable but went undetected due to various misconceptions, myths and social barriers.
