WHO-Global vision 2020
Before you begin reading, I recommend you read my writing entitled Vitamin A Supplementation in India.
Lack of vitamin A to become one of the causes of a loss of vision. I can’t imagine if I become blind and the only thing I can see is darkness.
Based on the information I know, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that about 40-45 million people in the world blindness, third in Southeast Asia. Means that every minute is estimated that 12 people become blind, four of them also come from Southeast Asia. In children, every minute there is one child to be blind and almost half are in Southeast Asia. Meanwhile, the toddler, the WHO estimates there are 1.4 million suffering from blindness, where three-quarters of them in impoverished areas in Asia and Africa.
Given the magnitude of the problem blindness in the world, the WHO on 30 September 1999, a commitment to the global Vision 2020: The Right to Sight interference countermeasures to encourage the vision and blindness can be certain that actually prevented or rehabilitated.
This commitment has been running for 9 years, the remaining 12 years longer to reach the target. And you can take part in the inside.
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