Sudan: Blindness On the Rise

30 October 2014

Khartoum — The number of blind people in Sudan has risen to 225,000. About 12,500 of them are suffering from cataract.

"One child out of 1,000 children in the country is blind," the deputy director of the National Programme for Combating Blindness stated to the press in Khartoum on Wednesday. She attributed the rise to an increase of trachoma cases.

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