Year: 2025
Type: editorial
Abstract: Childhood blindness remains a significant public healthconcern1 in Pakistan, placing a substantial economicburden2,3 on families and the wider community. TheNational Committee for the Prevention of Blindnessrecently revealed a sobering statistic: approximately onepercent of the Pakistani population lives in darkness, withan estimated 1.2 per 1,000 children affected. Alarmingly,at least one-third of these cases are preventable. Whilethe World Health Organization (WHO) and theInternational Agency for the Prevention of Blindness(IAPB) have launched global initiatives to eliminateavoidable blindness, childhood blindness being a prioritybut the real challenge lies in translating thesecommitments into concrete action at the national andcommunity levels. Continue...
DOI: 10.47391/jpma.25-87
Author: Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary
Institution: Children Hospital, Faisalabad
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $650
OpenAlex ID: W4414535146
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