KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- A four-day free eye screening and exhibition will be held at the Mines Shopping Fair, Seri Kembangan, near here beginning Oct 12 in conjunction with World Sight Day.
The Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB), in a statement here Thursday, said the exhibition was jointly organised by the National Council for the Blind, Tun Hussein Onn Eye Hospital, Lions International and Rotary International.
World Sight Day is an annual event set up by the World Health Organisation and the International Association for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) to be observed globally on the second Thursday of October each year, to create awareness that 80 per cent of blindness can actually be prevented or treated.
Currently, there are about 40 million blind persons worldwide and about 120 million people, mostly Asians, are suffering from low vision, it said.
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