The Tragedy of Preventable Blindness
According to the World Health Organization, some 314 million people are visually impaired worldwide, 45 million of them totally blind. The tragedy is that three-quarters of all blindness can be prevented or treated.
Avoidable blindness poses an enormous challenge to the global health care system, particularly in low- and middle- income countries. There a…
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