THE FIGHT FOR SIGHT
Around the world there 36 million people living with blindness. For around 80% of them, that blindness should have been preventable. Conditions such as cataracts and trachoma are easily treatable in their earlier stages. Corrective surgery is cheap and quick, taking as little as five minutes. Yet each year hundreds of thousands continue to go blind unnecessarily, usually due to a lack of access to the healthcare. This project explores the issue of preventable blindness in Zanzibar, Bangladesh and Uganda, and follows a series of patients through life-altering surgery.
Around the world there 36 million people living with blindness. For around 80% of them, that blindness should have been preventable. Conditions such as cataracts and trachoma are easily treatable in their earlier stages. Corrective surgery is cheap and quick, taking as little as five minutes. Yet each year hundreds of thousands continue to go blind unnecessarily, usually due to a lack of access to the healthcare. This project explores the issue of preventable blindness in Zanzibar, Bangladesh and Uganda, and follows a series of patients through life-altering surgery.