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Low Vision
What is Low Vision
Low vision means having impaired vision that cannot be corrected by glasses, surgery or medication. The most common cause of low vision is macular degeneration, an age-related disease that affects the central portion of the visual field. Other common causes include glaucoma, cataracts and diabetes.
Low Vision Clinic
At Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, we run a full-fledged low-vision clinic with a trained ophthalmologist and technicians. Following are the aids at the clinic to rehabilitate a person with low vision.
A Low Vision person will have
Person’s inability to carry out daily living and leisure activities, as well as performing work. These individuals are best helped with low-vision devices.
Reasons for Low Vision
- Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Macular Degeneration
- Optic Atrophy
- Lens Dislocation
- Corneal Scar
- Glaucoma
- Albinism
- Amblyopia
- Nystagmus
Nisha Solanki belongs to a large family of two brothers and four sisters (of whom 3 are married). Both her brothers and elder sister attend school. Nisha’s father is mentally challenged. The responsibility of earning is on the mother, who is a daily wage farm labourer and grandmother, who tends to her goats. Two earing members for a family of ten.
Blindness in children leads to deep impact on psychological, emotional, and socioeconomic growth to the family. A child with blindness is more likely to have delays in developmental milestones, to be more frequently hospitalized, and die during childhood than a sighted child. Such severe vision loss also adversely effects the educational activities, orientation, and mobility from the early stage of life resulting in lack of employment privilege. These differential characteristics between a sighted and non-sighted child is more obvious in developing countries. Moreover, the disability adjusted life years (DALY) loss in a blind child is far more than that of adults with blindness.