Every second Thursday of October at the initiative of the World Health Organization celebrates World Sight Day, which aims to draw attention to the problem of human visual functions: blindness and rehabilitation of people with serious visual impairments .
Leads the list of causes of chronic Blindness are age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataract, trachoma, corneal opacity, as well as eye diseases in children.
Increased cases of blindness due to uncontrolled diabetes. This trend is observed worldwide. According to the International Agency for the Prevention Blindness worldwide about 284 million people have certain problems sight . 39 million of them denied of view at all. More than 19 million children do not know firsthand about the violation of visual processes.
Data for Russia are as follows: more than 70% of the population facing problems disorders of view Regardless of age. Marked increase in the number of occurrence of visual impairment among schoolchildren. Increasingly, there are glaucoma and cataracts among Russians in middle age. Experts say that in 80% of cases with timely treatment for qualified treatment Blindness It could have been avoided.
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