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OUTREACH EVENTS ON
WORLD
SIGHT DAY
OCI ACTIVITIES
eye health”, providing quality, accessible and
sustainable eye care solutions to the masses
and eye health education to the public.
OCI’s five major activities included a film on
he second Thursday of October every Myopia (see Box).
year sees a good amount of activity by
Teye care organisations the world over OCI had set a target to screen one lakh
to draw attention to eye health and generate (100,000) people in 100 days beginning 1
awareness among the public at large. Post the September. This was achieved thanks to
event, several reports have come in from various the voluntary participation of 27 partners:
organisations in the country. optometry practitioners, optometry
institutions, eye NGOs and eye hospitals, and
The Optometry Council of India (OCI) with support from Zeiss India Pvt Ltd. The
celebrates the WSD every year in alignment with names of those who screened the maximum
its vision of assuring excellence in optometry number of people will be announced soon.
education and equitable eye care in the country.
The theme this year revolved around Myopia Another activity was eye health awareness
awareness; and the UN resolution of “Universal lectures of various common eye conditions
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