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FIMA GIVES VISION TO POOR SRI LANKANS FIMA GIVES VISION TO POOR SRI LANKANS M. L. M. Rayes* M. L. M. Rayes* Abstract: Sri Lanka, a developing nation in South Asia, has significant prevalence of visual impairments, deficiency of eye care facilities and qualified eye surgeons, especially outside major cities. The situation worsened over the past three decades of internal conflict between Tamil rebels and the government. To a large population segment, the governmental eye care services are not available, and the private sector services are not affordable. Charitable and humanitarian non-governmental organizations came forward to ease the burdens of visual impairments. This article presents the role of the Federation of Islamic Medical Associations (FIMA), and other relief NGOs, in alleviating visual impairments, with reference to the central role of the Kuwait Hospital Foundation in Sri Lanka. Key words: Visual impairment, Cataract, Sri Lanka. Introduction: Impaired vision and blindness are one of the major public health problems facing many developing countries. Although the diseases that affect the eyes are generally common and widespread in all nations, it is the developing countries and poor nations, where, due to poor resources and inadequate infrastructures in delivering health care services, the disease burden remains very heavy. In 2010, World Health Organization (WHO) released new global estimates of visual impairment using the most up-to-date studies. WHO estimates that the number of people with visual impairment (presenting vision) is 285 million (65% of whom are aged over 50 years). Of these, 246 million have low vision (63% over 50) and 39 million are estimated to be blind (82% over 50) 1,2 . These estimates were based on 50 national and sub-national studies from 38 countries, published and unpublished, conducted since 2004, and on previous studies that were still representative. The majority of the 50 surveys were rapid assessments for the population 50 years and older. Regional estimates were calculated with a model taking into account, among other factors, the country's economic development status, after having verified the fit between data on visual impairment and development indicators. The distribution of blind and visually impaired persons of all ages in the six WHO Regions is shown in Table I. The top three causes of visual impairment (VI) are uncorrected refractive errors, cataract and glaucoma. The top three causes of blindness in the 2010 estimate are cataract, glaucoma and age-related macular degeneration 1 . *Dr. M. L. M Rayes Medical Director – Kuwait Hospital Consultant Paediatrician Senior Lecturer and Head Department of Paediatrics Rajarata University of Sri Lanka. Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. E-mail: rayes@doctors.org.uk FIMA YearBook 2010-2011 73
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Humanitarian Relief “If, however,
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Page 80 and 81: FIMA EYE HOSPITALS Over the past 7
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