NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — In 1986, with only one ophthalmologist to deal with a cataract burden of 5,500 blind persons, the West African country of The Gambia established a National Eye Care Programme and embarked on the training of middle-level manpower for the control of cataract blindness. Today, with an indigenous team of…
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