Is Blindness in children common? Is it preventable?
Nearly 5 million children in the world today are visually handicapped out of which 1.5 million are blind. Out of this, 1 million live in Asia. It is also really disheartening to note that nearly 50% of this childhood blindness is preventable. Also alarming is the fact that the total cumulative blind years to be lived by these children would be approximately 75 million years.
