Report reveals global impact

International development charity Sightsavers has revealed it examined the eyes of more 13.8 million people around the world during 2012.

Sightsavers also performed 205,000 cataract operations and provided 12 million people with antibiotic ointment to treat trachoma.

The figures came at the organisation's AGM earlier this week and were part of data highlighted in its 2012 annual report.

Sightsavers chief executive Caroline Harper said: 'Sightsavers' vision is of a world where no one is blind from avoidable causes and where visually impaired people participate equally in society. Our strategy to achieve this is ambitious, but the progress set out in the 2012 report is promising.