Browsing: World Sight Day

Over 650,000 residents of Lagos State have benefited from free eye screening, care and management, including, free eye surgeries, eye glasses and eye medications under the auspices of Lagos State Government’s Blindness Prevention Programme, since inception of the program in year 2001. 

The gesture was facilitated by a nonprofit organization, Community Advancement Initiative for Self Reliance, in collaboration with Essilor-Vision for Life.

He said: “Majority of the affected persons needed urgent cataract and other forms of eye surgical operation to have their vision restored