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“Take up blindness control as a mission”
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Governor seeks priority for tackling blindness due to cataract
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CHENNAI: Governor Surjit Singh Barnala has urged voluntary agencies such as Lions and Rotary International, and non-governmental organisations, to take up blindness control as their mission.
“It is only by joint efforts that we can tackle blindness,” Mr. Barnala said on Saturday after inaugurating Nethra Drishyam, a hi-tech new block of Rajan Eye Care Hospital, a super speciality eye hospital and post graduate institute of ophthalmology.
Effective strategies
The Governor said it was time effective strategies were chalked out to curtail the increase in the number of persons turning blind. He sought priority for tackling blindness due to cataract, which was about 50 to 60 per cent.
Releases book
Mr. Barnala also released a book.
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