Sat, 15 Oct 2016 10:06:20 +0000 Over 140,000 people in Zambia are suffering from unnecessary blindness, says a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Orbis Africa. Orbis Africa country representative Lucia Ladaf made the disclosure in Luanshya yesterday during the commemoration of World Sight Day where she said that children were almost approximately four times likely to suffer from blindness despite the fact that half of all childhood blindness was either avoidable or treatable. Ms Lucia said her organisation was expanding its operations on the Copperbelt Province to all the 10 provinces to increase the uptake of quality pediatric eye health services and follow up-care within the district health system. She said the project was to build the capacity of key health care personnel at primary, secondary and tertiary levels and strengthen referral system to deliver quality eye service. She further said that it was the organisation’s vision to offer support at district level in line with the government […]
