Ophthalmologists, researchers and health activists on Sunday said that diabetes was responsible for a sharp increase in preventable blindness in Bangladesh, as cases of diabetic retinopathy surged due to poor screening, lack of awareness and limited treatment facilities...
The National Vitamin A-plus campaign was conducted across the country on Saturday with feeding over 2.26 crore children under 5-year age to prevent childhood blindness and reduce child mortality...
Expressing Bangladesh鈥檚 support for the UN Special Envoy on Vision and a Global Eye Health Summit in 2026, foreign minister Hasan Mahmud has reaffirmed that Bangladesh would continue to play its leadership role in the global fight against vision impairment and blindness...
