1.08 billion Population : 9 million blind people
52 million people visually impaired.

Childhood blindness : 320,000.
 
There are 12,000 ophthalmologists in the country but the majority of these live and work in the urban areas
 
Causes of Avoidable Blindness in India:
62.6% Cataracts
9% Refractive Error
5.8% Glaucoma
0.09 Corneal pathologies
 
Mission for Vision (MFV), a registered charitable trust, was founded to provide cost effective, high quality ophthalmic care to the poor and needy of India, mainly in rural areas. MFV has been partnering with reputed eye institutions (partners), in addition to building its own hospitals, towards this cause.
 
 
 
 
     
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