World Sight Day

“World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second day Thursday of October, to focus global attention on blindness and impairment”.

 

Vision 2020 Global Initiative: “The Right to Sight” coordinates the WSD where its members and supporters collaborate to organize events to spread the awareness of blindness and vision impairment publicly. The global effort behind the Vision 2020 is invented by WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness. The WHO program believes that avoidable causes of blindness can be monitored and finally eliminated.

“The global target is to ultimately reduce blindness prevalence to less than 0.5 % in all countries, or less than 1 % in any country”

Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Blindness and impairment are regarded as physiological or neurological international health issues where it should be taken into account. WSD main target involves educating people to prevent impairment or restore sight. According to several positive international key messages, 80 % of blindness cases are treatable, infectious causes of blindness are minimized and restorations of sight and blindness avoidance techniques are spread among health care centers.   These include blurred vision, halos, blind spots, floaters, and other symptoms. Blurred vision is the loss of sharpness of vision and the inability to see small details. Blind spots (scotomas) are dark “holes” in the visual field in which nothing can be seen.  Alternative Names are vision impairment; Impaired vision; Blurred vision. We should consider changes in vision, blurriness, blind spots, halos around lights, or dimness of vision should always be evaluated by a medical professional. Such changes may represent an eye disease, aging, eye injury, or a condition like diabetes that affects many organs in your body.