LAHORE: Department of Ophthalmology of the Lahore General Hospital (LGH) on Friday organized ‘Glaucoma Awareness Walk’ to create awareness regarding eye-sight and vision related issues. Post Graduate Medical Institute Principal Prof. Dr. Sardar Muhammad Al-freed Zafar, while addressing participants said that to prevent eye diseases and blindness, it is important to control diabetes, high blood pressure and air pollution. Similarly, constantly watching cartoons on the small screens of the phone by the children and working without computer shield in adults also harmful for eye health. Speakers said there are modern medical equipments for timely diagnosis and treatment of vision and sight issues at the LGH. They said that the rate of visual impairment in children is increasing day by day as most of the parents give mobile phones to the children of 2 to 6 years of age to entertain or feed them. Online
