Call to set up glaucoma group

NST: KUALA LUMPUR: It is time to set up a glaucoma support group to counsel and encourage patients to fight the disease, an eye specialist said yesterday.
"Patients and their families need to be educated on the disease so that they will know how to control the progress of glaucoma," said Dr Linda Teoh, a consultant ophthalmologist at Tun Hussein Onn National Eye Hospital.
In conjunction with World Glaucoma Day today, the hospital is organising a forum titled "Understanding Glaucoma", followed by free eye screening for 200 people on Saturday.
The screening is open to people who have not been diagnosed with glaucoma, aged 40 and above.