Welcome to this podcast which is named as “Let There Be Sight” Podcast. All of you know that doctors are often focused on not only direct patient care, but also disease prevention which is very important. Sharing knowledge about diseases is an important element in disease prevention. Doctors can share information or knowledge to their patients in multiple ways like one-on-one counseling when they are here in the OPD for their checkups or through patient's community education sessions as well.
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episode 3: World Glaucoma Awareness Week | Nelivigi Eye Hospital
This is Dr. Sirish Nelivigi, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Glaucoma Surgeon at Nelivigi Eye Hospital, Bellandur in Bangalore.
In today's podcast episode I would like to discuss about "World Glaucoma Awareness Week".
World Glaucoma Awareness Week will be celebrated from 8 to 14 March, 2020. The main objective of this week is to eliminate glaucoma blindness by motivating people to have regular eye checkups, including optic nerve examination.
Glaucoma is a disease of the eye in which the nerves in the eye responsible for the vision are damaged causing gradual loss of vision. The vision loss can occur without any prior signs and symptoms. Glaucoma is the third leading of cause of blindness affecting around 12 million people in the country.
So, listen to the podcast carefully. For more information about “Glaucoma” visit: www.nelivigieyehospital.com