Blindness on the rise in Sudan
The number of blind people in Sudan has risen to 225,000. About 12,500 of them suffer from cataracts. “One child out of 1,000 children in the country is blind,” the deputy director of the National Programme for Combating Blindness stated to the press in Khartoum on Wednesday. She attributed the rise to an increase of trachoma cases. The western and eastern regions of the country are the most affected with blindness, “as a result of poverty and deteriorated health services”, she said. File photo: Blind members of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/Unamid) Related: Sudan’s MoH reports malaria increase but no Ebola (29 October 2014)Outbreak of conjunctivitis in Fata Borno, North Darfur (21 October 2014)
The number of blind people in Sudan has risen to 225,000. About 12,500 of them suffer from cataracts.
“One child out of 1,000 children in the country is blind,” the deputy director of the National Programme for Combating Blindness stated to the press in Khartoum on Wednesday. She attributed the rise to an increase of trachoma cases.
The western and eastern regions of the country are the most affected with blindness, “as a result of poverty and deteriorated health services”, she said.
File photo: Blind members of the Sudanese Association for Disabled People in El Fasher, North Darfur (Albert González Farran/Unamid)
Related:
Sudan’s MoH reports malaria increase but no Ebola (29 October 2014)
Outbreak of conjunctivitis in Fata Borno, North Darfur (21 October 2014)
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