Geography
This country’s early 1990s blindness crisis involved more than 10 million people suffering from bilateral cataracts.
What is India
Surgeries under the early government programs took place in this kind of non-permanent location.
What are temporary surgical camps?
Cataract is a clouding of this part of the eye, caused by protein clumping or discoloration.
What is the lens?
Prevalence of this condition decreased by 26% after the CBCP program was created.
What is cataracts?
Cataract cases in India occur earlier in life than elsewhere, with almost 45% happening before this age.
What is 60 years old?
This program was funded in part by the World Bank.
What is the Cataract Blindness Control Program (CBCP)
The lens focuses light onto this light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye.
What is the retina?
This percentage of the world’s blind population resides in India.
What is ¼?
Cataract risk in India is made worse by long hours of sunlight exposure, especially in this type of climate zone.
What is a tropical climate?
The Cataract Blindness Control Program began first in these kinds of regions.
What are low income regions with limited access to services?
Smoke exposure from this common household activity increases cataract risk in low-income women.
What is indoor cooking?
This is the number of people who are affected by blindness in India.
What is 12 million?
Most of the World Bank-supported cataract surgeries took place in these two types of health facilities instead of temporary camps.
What are fixed hospitals and clinics?
This program, India’s first national eye disease program, began in 1963 and was later expanded to include cataract treatment.
What is the National Program for Control of Blindness (NPCB)?
The less invasive cataract surgery method that leaves part of the lens capsule intact is known by this abbreviation.
What is ECCE (extracapsular cataract extraction)?
This percentage of the blind population live in low and middle income countries.
What is 90%?
Aravind Eye Hospital, one of the most successful eye care systems in the world, is based in this Indian city.
What is Madurai?
This institution pioneered an approach to treating cataracts in rural areas and is a leading partner in CBCP.
What is Avarind Eye Care System?
Intraocular lenses, often abbreviated as IOLs, serve this corrective function after the natural lens is removed.
What is restoring focus or vision?
The occurrence of this technique used in surgery increased from 3% in 1994 to about 42% between 1999-2022.
What is IOL technique?