Papua New Guinea will commemorate World Sight Day (WSD) this week.
World Sight Day is celebrated on the second Thursday of October annually throughout the world with the theme “Eye care for all.”
Celebrations will be hosted by the PNG Eye Care (PNGEC) in Port Moresby on Thursday, October 13 at the National Resource Centre at University of PNG Medical Faculty, Taurama Campus.
PNGEC senior manager Samuel Peter Koim confirmed that they’ll be lead up activities as well.
A free eye testing school screening will be done at Ted Diro Primary School on Wednesday, October 12.
School Screening is an ongoing project that is funded by USAID and it will be carried throughout this year.
Koim said, “We will be having visitors coming all the way from the United States to see work on the ground on child school screening.”
Celebrations on Thursday will be an open day as well for students to visit the centre and do free eye testing.
World Sight Day is an important advocacy and communications event on the eye health calendar.
It is a great time to engage with a wider audience and showcase why eye health needs everybody’s attention.