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In Focus: Practising four Ps leads World Sight Day message

Andrew McClean reports on how the industry celebrated World Sight Day on October 14

Love your eyes was the theme of this year’s World Sight Day on October 14, which was promoted by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) with four Ps: prevent, protect, preserve and prioritise.

The charity’s annual event called on the eye care industry to raise public awareness of blindness and vision impairment, lobby governments to designate funds for prevention programmes and educate the public about eye health.

United Nations (UN) diplomats partnered with the IAPB and World Sight Day partner OneSight for a sight screening event, which saw co-chair of the UN friends of vision group and UN representative for Ireland, Geraldine Byrne Nason, have a sight test.

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