EYE SERVICES IN PNG SET TO RECEIVE MORE HELP

EYE SERVICES IN PNG SET TO RECEIVE MORE HELP

Posted by : Posted on : 10-Oct-2018

Blindness focus of new agreement in PNG

Quoting Radio New Zealand � 10 October 2018

�Eye services in Papua New Guinea are set to receive more support after the PNG government signed a new agreement with the Fred Hollows Foundation of New Zealand.

�PNG has the highest rate of blindness and vision impairment in the Pacific.

�One in eighteen adults over 50-years-old are blind and women are more likely to be blind than men.

�The agreement outlines commitments to ensure all people have access to high quality eye care, provided by a skilled local eye care workforce in a supportive healthcare environment.

�The charity said it has operated in PNG over the last 11 years and trained 86 specialist eye care nurses to provide community care.

�More needed to be done to address the burden of blindness in PNG, it said.�

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