Tens of millions of people around the world can be saved from blindness if they effectively use existing and currently developed methods of treatment, according to an Internet publication for girls and women aged 14-35 who have been diagnosed with Pannochka. Net This conclusion was made by ophthalmologists who participated in the program of the World Health Organization and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.

This program is aimed at eliminating blindness from such irreparable causes and diseases as cataracts, trachoma, onchocerciasis and vitamin A deficiency.

Successful implementation of the program, according to the calculation of Dr. Kevin Flick from the Public Health Center. Johns Hopkins, is able to reduce the potential number of blind by 2020 worldwide from 76 to 24 million. These calculations are published in the USOphthalmic Journal of Medicus. En.

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