The right to sight: Ensuring eye care for all For equitable and holistic eye care services, leadership and governance, health service delivery, access to drugs, health workforce, information system and health financing should be strengthened Every year World Sight Day is observed on the... 15 Oct, 2018
Nepal falls short on �right to sight� goal Kathmandu, October 12 Nepal has fallen a long way short on its commitment to eliminate ‘avoidable vision defect’ by 2020, a proclamation the country made in 1999, with now just three years to go. Nepal had joined a joint programme of World... Travel 13 Oct, 2017
World Sight Day observed Kathmandu, October 13 Nepal observed the World Sight Day today with the theme ‘Stronger Together’ to raise awareness about preventable and curable blindness. World Sight Day is a special annual event of awareness that is celebrated across the... Horoscopes 14 Oct, 2016
EDITORIAL:Right to sight People no longer have to go to foreign countries, for most of the cases of defects in vision can be properly handled in the country itself Access to eye care for all is indeed a tall order. Blindness and vision impairment can be very debilitating.... 09 Oct, 2015
World Sight Day to be observed today Kathmandu, October 7 Nepal will be observing World Sight Day tomorrow with the theme ‘eye care for all’. World Sight Day is a special annual event of awareness that is celebrated across the world each year to focus on blindness and vision... Horoscopes 08 Oct, 2015
Survey reveals state of visually impaired KATHMANDU: Speakers at the programme today urged the government for formulating a gender sensitive policy to wards women. Of the total number of the visually impaired in the country, 64 per cent are women. Bimal Poudyal, programme coordinator of... Horoscopes 09 Oct, 2009
Cataract triggering blindness KATHMANDU: Even as the world is observing World Sight Day on Thursday, ophthalmologists say that despite being avoidable and curable, cataract has been the main reason behind the increasing number of blind people in the country. The World Health... Travel 08 Oct, 2009
Govt to launch programmes against blindness in rural areas Kathmandu, October 10:The government is planning to launch massive curative and preventive services for blindness among people in rural areas. Researches say about 80 per cent of the total cases of blindness in Nepal is curable if treated in time.... Travel 10 Oct, 2005
