By IANS,
New Delhi : A total of 133 million Indians have no access to an optometrist to get eye examination and spectacles, Indian Optometry Federation president Rajesh Wadhwa said Thursday.
This figure includes 11 million children.
Numerous Indians “need vision correction and to move towards alleviating this healthcare crisis we need to promote optometry and optometrist”, Wadhwa said on the World Optometry Day here.
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