Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life,
health, sustainable development, and the economy. Yet nowadays, many people, families …

Emerging pandemics show that humans are not infallible and communities need to be
prepared. Coronavirus outbreak was first reported towards the end of 2019 and has now …

Blindness is a major global public health problem and recent estimates from World Health
Organization (WHO) showed that in India there were 62 million visually impaired, of whom 8 …

Background Many causes of vision impairment can be prevented or treated. With an ageing
global population, the demands for eye health services are increasing. We estimated the …

Background To contribute to the WHO initiative, VISION 2020: The Right to Sight, an
assessment of global vision impairment in 2020 and temporal change is needed. We aimed …

Purpose: To evaluate the psychological impact of the COVID 19 crisis on ophthalmologists-
in-training and practising ophthalmologists during lockdown in India. Methods: An online …

PURPOSE: To compare the prevalence of and risk factors for primary open-angle glaucoma
(POAG) and primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) in urban and rural populations in the …

Aim: To report the prevalence, risk factors and associated population attributable risk
percentage (PAR) for refractive errors in the South Indian adult population. Methods: A …

Purpose.: To describe the prevalence and risk factors for pterygium in a population-based
sample of individuals aged 30 years and older in South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh …

“Of course it is (a pandemic). We're there. It doesn't matter what kind of terminology you use.
To me, the pandemic is a mindset. We can either use pandemic as a word that makes us all …