“BE SURE YOU OR YOUR SPOUSE IS NOT THE ONE AMONGST EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE AFFECTED BY GLAUCOMA IN INDIAN POPULATION. 6.7 MILLION PEOPLE ARE ESTIMATED TO BE TOTALLY BLIND DUE TO THIS DISEASE IN THE WORLD “ Gently, quietly and stealthily, the disease kills the Ganglion cells, the most vital unit of vision and leads to gradual imperceptible narrowing of “ Field Of Vision " finally leading to irreparable total blindness. That is the classical disease of Glaucoma, aptly labeled as KALA MOTIA OR KALA PANI since in earlier days the disease was untreatable and almost always resulted in total blindness.
The worst aspect of the disease is that it betrays no signs and symptoms in almost 30 percent of the patients and hence remains undetected till the person has lost sufficient field of vision. By the time the vision loss becomes evident, 50 percent of Ganglion cells are destroyed. The central…
