Visually impaired children to benefit

Stanley SENEVIRATNE- Kurunegala North group corr

In accordance to a Survey conducted by the Health Ministry which identified 160,000 Children Countrywide is being visually impaired, while another 450,000 children as being potentially susceptible the Health Ministry launched vision 2020', a program to donate free spectacles to those affected schoolchildren.

Under this program school teachers are expected to assist in identifying children who are visually impaired. The spectacles will be changed in due course if necessary every six months, as children' eyesight change quickly, if those spectacles give away it will be replaced free of charge the official of the Health Ministry told the media last week.

Last week 500 spectacles were gifted in the Colombo District with First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa and Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena participating in the inaugural ceremony.