It is said that beauty lives in the eyes of the person. Eyes are soul of the physical body. A blind person only can tell what it is to be blind. Let us discuss about the blindness prevention in the cataract patients on the occasion of the World Sight Day. About 48% of world blindness is caused by Cataract problems.
Cataract is the clouding of the eye lens, which impedes the passage of light. Although most cases of cataract are related to the aging process, occasionally children can be born with the condition, or a cataract may develop after eye injuries, inflammation, and some other eye diseases. Based on the National Blindness and Low Vision survey carried out in 2000, 1.53% of the total population older than 30 years of age are blind. From these, 80% are blind because of cataracts. The number of such blind people is about 700,000, and the number is increasing at an alarming rate of…
