GLOBAL BLINDNESS

GLOBAL BLINDNESS - A Preventable Tragedy
Over the next decade the need for effective blindness prevention and treatment programs will become an increasingly urgent problem on a global level.
The number of people in need is growing far more rapidly than the eye care services to help them. It is commonly estimated that without proper interventions,the number of blind people in the world will increase from 37 million today to 75 million by 2020. At present, another 135 million have debilitating lowvision.
• Every 5 seconds a person in the world goes blind and a child goes blind every minute.• Ninety percent of the world’s blind people live in developing countries.• Two out of three blind people in the world are women, yet they are the least likely to obtain sight restoring services.