FODO striving to ‘Make Vision Count’

The Federation of Ophthalmic and Dispensing Opticians (FODO) has united with eye care organisations for this year’s World Sight Day and has pledged to help cut the prevalence of avoidable blindness.

The organisation has responded to the call from the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) for eye care organisations to rally together this WSD after data released from the Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) showed that decades of declining ‘avoidable blindness’ is plateauing, and is projected to increase.

According to the study, an ageing and growing population, combined with an increase in myopia and diabetic retinopathy, could lead to a tripling in blindness by 2050. Uncorrected refractive errors, cataracts and age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma were the main causes of blindness or moderate and severe visual impairment (MSVI) in 2015.