Addressing childhood blindness: A collective responsibility

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  • Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary Professor of Paediatric Ophthalmology, The Children Hospital and The Institute of Child Health, Faisalabad, Pakistan.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.25-87

Abstract

Childhood blindness remains a significant public healthconcern1 in Pakistan, placing a substantial economicburden2,3 on families and the wider community. TheNational Committee for the Prevention of Blindnessrecently revealed a sobering statistic: approximately onepercent of the Pakistani population lives in darkness, withan estimated 1.2 per 1,000 children affected. Alarmingly,at least one-third of these cases are preventable. Whilethe World Health Organization (WHO) and theInternational Agency for the Prevention of Blindness(IAPB) have launched global initiatives to eliminateavoidable blindness, childhood blindness being a prioritybut the real challenge lies in translating thesecommitments into concrete action at the national andcommunity levels.

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Published

2025-09-25

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Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary. (2025). Addressing childhood blindness: A collective responsibility. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 75(10), 1516–1518. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.25-87

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Vol. 75 No. 10 (2025): OCTOBER

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EDITORIAL

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