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The 12th World Sight Day was observed on Friday by the city based Bhoomika in collaboration with Health and Family Welfare Department at Jayadev Bhawan here.
This is a global event to raise awareness about blindness and vision impairment observed on the second Thursday of October each year till the end of October every year. The objective of this function is to educate the people how to protect their eyes from various diseases.
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Prasanna Acharya inaugurating the function as chief guest said "Eye care is essential to maintaining the health of our eyes as this is our wonderful God gift. We should take prevention to protect our eyes. If we involve in preventing visual impairment or restoring sight then the visually inpaired would be able to see this colourful world who have no vision at all". There are many eye diseases that can be prevented with proper precautions and healthy eating a lot of Vitamins A, E, C, and some zinc and Selenium, he added.
Among others, Director of Health Services Dr Upendra Ku Sahoo, Mission Director-NRHM Dr Pramod Ku Meherda, Health and Family Welfare Secretary Anu Garg and Director of Bhoomika Bhisma Prasad Rath also spoke on eye care.
This is a global event to raise awareness about blindness and vision impairment observed on the second Thursday of October each year till the end of October every year. The objective of this function is to educate the people how to protect their eyes from various diseases.
Minister of Health and Family Welfare Prasanna Acharya inaugurating the function as chief guest said "Eye care is essential to maintaining the health of our eyes as this is our wonderful God gift. We should take prevention to protect our eyes. If we involve in preventing visual impairment or restoring sight then the visually inpaired would be able to see this colourful world who have no vision at all". There are many eye diseases that can be prevented with proper precautions and healthy eating a lot of Vitamins A, E, C, and some zinc and Selenium, he added.
Among others, Director of Health Services Dr Upendra Ku Sahoo, Mission Director-NRHM Dr Pramod Ku Meherda, Health and Family Welfare Secretary Anu Garg and Director of Bhoomika Bhisma Prasad Rath also spoke on eye care.
