2024-03-06 08:00:03
World Glaucoma Week takes place from March 10 to 16, 2024. Chronic eye disease due to damage to the optic nerve, it can lead to visual impairment up to blindness. For its part, cataracts are characterized by a veil of opacity on the lens leading to a progressive reduction in vision. According to the WHO, at least 2.2 billion people worldwide would suffer from partial or total visual impairment in 2019. At least one billion of these cases could have been or could be treated.
How to enable early diagnosis of cataracts and glaucoma? How can we slow down their progress or treat them? What support is there?
Professor Jean-Philippe NordmannHead of the Ophthalmology department at Quinze-Vingts National Ophthalmology Center in Paris, director of the Glaucoma Center Dr Papa Amadou N’diaye, full professor, hospital ophthalmologist, head of department of Abass NDao Ophthalmology Center in Dakar, Senegal. President of the Senegalese Society of Ophthalmology. Testimony ofAlain Reno, liaison officer within the group of blind and amblyope people of Metropolitan Montrealhimself visually impaired and suffering from glaucoma.
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