Eye-care in the Philippines
Risk in child blindness
Eye care in the Philippines is scarce, even though there’s a high demand for it.
One of the main causes of blindness in the Philippines is vitamin A deficiency, a result from malnutrition.
Just by giving children vitamin A tablets, we can eliminate the instance of blindness in children.
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Childhood Blindness Vitamin A programme - Philippines
With our partners Helen Keller International (HKI), we are working in the Autonomous Region of Muslim...Intra Ocular Lenses for Cataract Surgeries (IOL) - Philippines
There are 45 million blind people worldwide and cataract is the leading cause. But more than two-...