LGH observes glaucoma week
(WorldNews Pakistan)

LAHORE: World Glaucoma Week 2019 was celebrated at Lahore General Hospital where awareness walk and seminar was held under the aegis of Department of Ophthalmology. Post Graduate Medical Institute Principal Prof Mohammad Tayyab said out of total eight crore patients of glaucoma only in Pakistan, we have 20 lakh who were caught by this disease because there was no proper awareness among the masses and people wait a long to start the treatment. Prof Muhammad Moeen and other medical experts, addressing on the occasion, said prevalence of blindness in Pakistan was much higher than the international figure of 10 per cent which was due to late diagnosis and lack of awareness among the general...