
Hospital calls for proactive screening for glaucoma
The Hindu
People who are unemployed and live in rural areas are unable to access eye care and often turn up with advanced glaucoma, a study has found.
The study, done by doctors from Aravind Eye Hospital in Puducherry, assessed the treatment-seeking pattern among the south Indian population which comes to the hospital.
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