Topic: Eye Care
TheStar, a New Zealand newspaper, reported that avoidable blindness had to be included in the broader development agenda to receive the necessary attention from policymakers, according to speakers at the World Congress on Refractive Error. Almost 700 million people in the world are vision impaired. Why? They can't get an eye exam or glasses. The World Health Organization has noted that the world economy annually loses $269 billion in productivity because of correctable myopia.
