India is home to largest number of visually impaired adults. Since the launch of Vision 2020 initiative, we have made tremendous progress to reduce the burden of treatable blindness. National blindness and visual impairment survey of 2019 using RAAB 6 method shows a heartening decrease in prevalence of visual impairment by almost 52%. But we have miles to go as uncorrected refractive errors and cataract still remain the major cause of treatable blindness. In addition diabetic retinopathy has now emerged as an important cause of visual impairment in both urban and rural populations.
According to the survey, financial constraint was cited as the most frequent reason for not seeking eye care. In the context of these findings the concept of Vision Centre becomes an important strategy to deliver primary eye care at the local level. In addition Vision Centres provide a link to the base hospital to provide a seamless secondary and tertiary care as well as surgical intervention if needed. These Vision Centres will also allow a patient to connect to a specialist for advice via Tele-Ophthalmology
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