World Sight Day is the most important advocacy and communications event on the eye health calendar. It is a great time to engage with the world at large – a patient’s family, those who seldom get an eye exam, diabetics. This year, let us ensure that we pay attention to eye care issues that impact lives everywhere, both developed and developing economies. What’s the first thing you can do? Plan for an eye examination. Look around in your family, especially for those who are vulnerable: young, school-going children , the elderly , those with diabetes . World Sight Day 2017 will be on 12 October 2017 . This year’s call to action: Make Vision Count Remember, 4 out of 5 — 80% –of the world’s blind are avoidably so . What can be done to arrest this unconscionable fact? First, arm yourself with your country’s prevalence data and Eye Health system information –the number of trained eye health personnel, your country’s plans to tackle blindness. As they say, knowledge is po
