Tag: blindness

• Monday, October 21st 2024 - 08:28 UTC

  WHO: 2,2 billion people worldwide with vision impairment or blindness

  

  The World Health Organization in its latest report has said that at least 2.2 billion people worldwide have vision impairment or blindness, of which over 1 billion cases could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed. This is because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and far-sightedness, glaucoma, and cataracts.

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  World Sight Day: 2.2 billion people have vision impairment or blindness

  

  More than 1 billion people worldwide are living with vision impairment because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and farsightedness, glaucoma and cataract,  according to the first World report on vision issued by the World Health Organization.