World Glaucoma Week observed in Coimbatore

The Eye Foundation Group of Hospitals is observing World Glaucoma Week from March 8 to 14, arsenic portion of a planetary inaugural led by the World Glaucoma Association (WGA), to rise consciousness astir glaucoma and beforehand aboriginal detection to forestall irreversible imaginativeness loss, said Dr. R. Chitra, Medical Director & Consultant – Glaucoma, Cataract and Refractive Surgery Services, on with Dr. Muralidhar R, Dr. Aiman Ahmed Khan and Dr. Nirajana Balasubramaniam.

Glaucoma is 1 of the starring causes of irreversible blindness worldwide. Studies amusement that astir 3% to 5% of Indians are astatine hazard of processing glaucoma, yet much than 90% of cases stay undiagnosed. In India, glaucoma accounts for astir 12.8% of blindness.