Statistics has shown that about 1.3 million Nigerians are blind, this was revealed during the commemoration of the World Sight Day in Abuja the nation’s capital. The commemoration for this year drew the attention of the Nigerian government and other Eyes health experts in deploying concrete measures by lunching a project, NATIONAL EYE HEALTH PROGRAMME to ensure that blind risk factors are tackled in Nigeria.
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Minister of State for Health Dr Tunji Alausa Unveiled the three Policy Documents for National Eye Health Programme, the policy documents which are: National Guidelines for Screening and Management of Diabetic Retinopathy, The Nigeria Glaucoma and Toolkit, National Eye Health Strategic Development Plan.
Dr. Alausa stressed the government commitment in ensuring that the policy documents are used in order to tackle the factors that causes blindness in Nigeria.
The Nigeria’s first lady Mrs Remi Tunibu who was declared Vision Champion of Nigeria reiterated her commitment to assist Nigerians with sight problems.
Mrs Remi who was represented by Mr Wahab Alawiyeke Senior Special Assistant to the Office of the first Lady, said “the first lady is passionate and is part of renew hope agenda to ensuring that it Sight problems will be eradicated to the minimal level.”
The Chief Medical Director National Eye Care Centre Kaduna State Dr Mauhoud Alhassan revealed that despite the growth in population the cases of sight are descending to some extent.
“And with this policy documents unveiled today by the Minister of State for Health I believe the cases will still become very minimal across Nigeria”
The Theme for this year World Sight Day 2023 is “Your Eyes At Work”, the three Policy Documents unveiled is expected to be a guidelines that would prevent factors that causes blindness and promote Eye health in Nigeria.
