Role of Communities to Prevent Corneal Blindness
Volume 1 - Issue 1
Tariq Masood*
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- General Manager, Tree Tops the Eye Centre, Pakistan
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Tariq Masood, General Manager, Tree Tops the Eye Centre, 3F/1 Wapda Town, Lahore, Pakistan
Received: January 19, 2018; Published: January 30, 2018
DOI: 10.32474/TOOAJ.2018.01.000103
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Abstract
The community needs to take appropriate actions itself, as well
as actions by government and non-governmental organizations.
Prevention of corneal blindness can take place at three stages:
a) Level-1 Prevention: Actions taken to prevent the onset of
disease
b) Level-2 Prevention: Actions taken to prevent
complications and the development of visual disability due to
an existing disease
c) Level-3 Prevention: After the immediate resolution of
the problem by surgery or other treatment, actions should be
taken to reduce existing disability from disease complications
right up to the point when some patient either seen by an eye
care worker or admitted to hospital, the community should
influence and trace out the ground reality or the actual reasons
.An eye care worker must have little control over the following:
a. The risk factors and immediate medical causes
b. The contributing and social factors.
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