Hope in sight on World Sight Day
World Sight Day is the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar and encourages people to be aware of eye care.
WORLD Sight Day is commemorated today, Thursday, 8 October.
World Sight Day is the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar and encourages people to be aware of eye care.
Understanding that 75 per cent of the world’s vision impairment is avoidable, the focus globally is to encourage people to take an eye test.
Eye care issues have universal impact – especially at a time when we typically spend many hours looking at screens on devices, and when Covid-19 has made access to care a lot harder.
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St John, the oldest Non-Profit Organisation in the world, has an eye care clinic at St John Durban, 129 KE Masinga (Old Fort) Road, providing professional eye testing and the dispensing of budget spectacles.
The global campaign has been encouraging people to take photographs to raise awareness around eye care issues and solutions, using the hashtag #HopeInSight.
Caxton Local Media Covid-19 reporting
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