Optometrists in India are engaged in a struggle to raise the profile of the profession in the country. Narendra Kumar reports
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Optometry was introduced in 1958 with the establishment of a school of optometry at Gandhi Eye Hospital, Aligarh, to provide a two-year diploma course run by UP State Medical Faculty, Lucknow. The government's aim was to lessen the burden of refraction on busy ophthalmologists, and to save the public from exploitation at the hands of unqualified opticians.
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