Blind people amongst those worst affected by cost of living crisis October 28, 2022 | City Talk The Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB) conducted a survey recently, asking 125 blind and visually impaired individuals to explain how the cost of living crisis was affecting them. The cost of living crisis has become a focal point for the government and a point of concern for the public in recent months. Soaring [...]
Blindness in Ghana October 27, 2022 | City Talk Ghana, like many nations, has a clear divide between those who are wealthy and those who live in poverty. Many Ghanaians live in conditions where they do not have access to healthcare or the resources to assist them out of the cycle of poverty. The lack of accessibility to healthcare can often push those suffering [...]
Six facts you may not know about gender and blindness October 24, 2022 | City Talk Women make up 55% of the world’s visually impaired, that is around 609 million women. Women are 12% more likely to develop some form of visual impairment and have 8% higher chances of becoming entirely blind compared to men. As women’s life expectancies are longer, they are more likely to develop age-related eye problems such [...]
Curing blindness in some of the most isolated regions of Nepal October 21, 2022 | City Talk In March 2022, the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation staged one of the biggest mountainous area cataract microsurgical camps ever organized in Nepal. It was here that 333 patients returned home with full vision after their blindness was cured. Whilst this was ongoing, another team working with the foundation were busy screening patients in Nepal’s [...]
Why raising awareness in remote areas saves sight October 18, 2022 | City Talk Andrew Wardle – Programmes Team at Orbis UK I was wearing my Orbis cap and shirt when Lemlem stopped me on the stairs of my hotel and asked if I knew what was wrong with her milky white eye. Immediately, I could see she had a cataract, one that had been developing for a long time. [...]
Promising research on synthetic corneas from London university October 17, 2022 | City Talk Aisha Memon, graduate from University College London and Dr Hirak Patra, Associate Professor of Nanomedicine and Regenerative Medicine at the University College London. The cornea is an avascular and clear structure present in the anterior part of the eye. It is responsible for mechanical support and protection as well as for light refraction, making it [...]
Finding new ways to treat cataracts October 14, 2022 | City Talk Professor Barbara Pierscionek, Deputy Dean for Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine and Social Care at Anglia Ruskin University. One of the worst fears is that of blindness. The great tragedy of the modern world is that so many people have sight impairment and that so much of this is preventable. In [...]
Tears of happiness: How curing blindness in Dolakha saved a girls future October 14, 2022 | City Talk Dolakha is located in northeastern Nepal. Popular amongst tourists and natives, its natural beauty, cultural sites and array of hiking trails attract people from far and wide. One of the largest attractions in the area is the Bhimsen Temple, a site dedicated to one of the brothers in the epic Sanskrit poem Mahabharata. The temple [...]
The Tej Kohli Ruit Foundation joins World Sight Day 2022 pledge October 13, 2022 | City Talk Today marks World Sight Day 2022. Many ophthalmologists and eye care organisations all over the world are preparing for the day by pledging their eye screenings to IAPB (International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness) World Sight Day campaign. This year, the Tej Kohli and Ruit Foundation is pledging 27,472 eye screenings that have taken [...]
We Should Deploy The Lessons of Covid to Combat Needless Blindness October 13, 2022 | City Talk World Sight Day (13 October) is an international day of awareness to focus the attention on the global issues of eye health. The hashtag for this year’s World Sight Day is #LoveYourEyes. Unfortunately, most of those most in need will not get to engage with this sentiment. Over 90% of the world’s 40 million blind [...]