Tehran, 11 October 2012 - World Sight Day 2012 was celebrated today at the Labafinejad Centre to raise awareness on avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The ceremony was attended and inaugurated by high-ranking officials as well as WHO. It was a half-day event in which the guest speakers presented technical presentations on visual impairment, mainly cataract, refractive errors, trachoma, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
WHO emphasized the role of ophthalmologists and ophthalmology residents and achieving the objectives of the Vision 2020 action plan. Vision 2020: The Right to Sight is a global initiative, launched in 1999, which aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.
Avoidable blindness and visual impairment are global health problems which have significant economic dimensions. Globally, 285 million people are visually impaired, of whom 39 million are blind. The global economy loses tens of billions of dollars annually as a result of blindness and visual impairment, which affects the whole of society.
Tehran, 11 October 2012 - World Sight Day 2012 was celebrated today at the Labafinejad Centre to raise awareness on avoidable blindness and visual impairment. The ceremony was attended and inaugurated by high-ranking officials as well as WHO. It was a half-day event in which the guest speakers presented technical presentations on visual impairment, mainly cataract, refractive errors, trachoma, diabetic retinopathy and glaucoma.
WHO emphasized the role of ophthalmologists and ophthalmology residents and achieving the objectives of the Vision 2020 action plan. Vision 2020: The Right to Sight is a global initiative, launched in 1999, which aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.
Avoidable blindness and visual impairment are global health problems which have significant economic dimensions. Globally, 285 million people are visually impaired, of whom 39 million are blind. The global economy loses tens of billions of dollars annually as a result of blindness and visual impairment, which affects the whole of society.
