Blindness

A Canadian family of six taking on a world tour to store memories before three of their four kids go blind due to retinitis pigmentosa, an incurable degenerative disorder, has traveled to Türkiye.

Keep a check on your daily intake of caffeine as a new study has found that consuming large amounts of daily caffeine may increase the risk of glaucoma more than three-fold for those with a genetic predisposition to higher eye pressure.

3.54% of the Bulgarian population or 248 354 people have glaucoma. This is the data, updated at the beginning of March 2018, presented by the Head of the Department of Eye Diseases, Ear, Neck, and Throat Diseases and Oral Surgery Prof. Lachezar Voinov, reported from the Press Center of the Military Medical Academy.

A two-month-old fawn, which has been found by locals in the western province of Afyonkarahisar after she lost her mother because it was blind, has undergone cataract surgery in the Afyon Kocatepe University (AKU) Veterinary Faculty Health Application and Research Center. 

Chances are, you probably don’t think much about colour-blindness unless you’re involved with the condition.

Colour blindness affects around 2.7 million in the UK alone.

The condition usually prevents people from seeing red, green or blue light.

There are also rare cases of people being unable to see any colour at all.

Kristina Tsvetanova has won an award for creating the world's first tablet for blind and visually impaired people, the European Commission says.

Tsvetanova has won a European Union Women Innovators prize - EUR 20 000 handed to young women entrepreneurs.

The Eyes on Four Paws Foundation has organized a photo exhibition entitled ''Awakening''. Visitors will have the opportunity to visit the exhibition from March 30 to April 8 in Sofia Hall at the Capital's Library, located on the central Slaveikov Square.

A visually impaired woman was denied entry into any shop or restaurant in the Aegean province of Aydın with her guide dog that was given to her in France.

People die waiting for surgery or examination Magnetic resonance scheduled for 2021

In Serbia more than 60,000 people are in various waiting lists of 44 hospitals. Surgeries are being scheduled for as late as the year of 2023.

Czech donation delivered to school for visually impaired

BELGRADE -- The donation of Czech government to the total value of EUR 10,000 was delivered to the Veljko Radmanović school for students with impaired eyesight.

The school is located in the Belgrade municipality of Zemun.