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National Programme for Control of Blindness
Why is it in the news?
- A women from Dhar and Indore districts lost all vision in the operated eye under the cataract treatment.
- The treatment is free of cost under the Union Health Ministry’s National Programme for Control of Blindness.
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About National Programme for Control of Blindness:
- National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCB&VI) was launched in the year 1976.
- It is a centrally sponsored scheme (now 60:40 in all states and 90:10 in NE States) with the goal of reducing the prevalence of blindness to 0.3% by 2020.
- The program also aims to establish an infrastructure and efficiency levels in the programme to be able to cater new cases of blindness each year to prevent future backlog.
- Rapid Survey on Avoidable Blindness conducted during 2006-07 showed reduction in the prevalence of blindness from 1.1% (2001-02) to 1% (2006-07).
Source
The Hindu.