World Sight Day (WSD) 2019: Vision First!
World Sight Day (WSD) is observed on second Thursday of October annually. WSD is focused to raise a global attention on blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2019 is on 10 October 2019 (Today). World Sight Day is the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar.
At least 2.2 billion people are blind or visually impaired – First World report on vision
Theme
World Sight Day 2019 is focused on Universal Eye Health. This year, the ‘Call to Action‘ for World Sight Day is: Vision First!
#VisionFirst #WSD2019 or #WorldSightDay
Key Facts
- At least 2.2 billion people are blind or visually impaired
- More than 1 billion people worldwide are living with vision impairment because they do not get the care they need for conditions like short and far sightedness, glaucoma and cataract
- 1.2 Billion people need #glasses to see better.
- More than 75% of visual impairment is avoidable.
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