Nahid Ferdausi*
Associate Professor, Head of Low Vision Department, National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh
*Corresponding Author: Nahid Ferdausi, Associate Professor, Head of Low Vision Department, National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Received: July 20, 2020; Published: August 25, 2020
Visual impairment from uncorrected refractive-errors can have immediate and long-term consequences in school-aged children, such as lost educational opportunities, lost an economic gain for individuals, families, and societies, and impaired quality of life. Uncorrected refractive-error is recognized as the principal cause of visual impairment in school-aged children as failure to the treatment of refractive-error in children may lead to Amblyopia which turns into the blindness of the children.
Citation: Nahid Ferdausi. “Needs and Challenges of Correction of Refractive Error among School - Aged Children”.Acta Scientific Ophthalmology 3.10 (2020): 01.
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