{"id":172,"date":"2011-10-14T03:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/eyecarecaribbean\/2011\/10\/14\/world-sight-day-bulletin-2011\/"},"modified":"2011-10-14T03:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T03:46:39","slug":"world-sight-day-bulletin-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyecarecaribbean.com\/site\/ecc\/bulletins\/world-sight-day-bulletin-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"World Sight Day Bulletin 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>World Sight Day 2011<\/strong>&nbsp;provides an&nbsp;opportunity to reflect&nbsp;on actions necessary&nbsp;to: Prevent blindness&nbsp;and visual&nbsp;impairment; While&nbsp;restoring sight and&nbsp;creating equal&nbsp;opportunities to&nbsp;persons whose sight&nbsp;cannot be restored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;As I write this brief message, I have no doubt that&nbsp;thousand of persons are becoming blind from one or&nbsp;more of the 5 leading causes of preventable blindness&nbsp;in the Caribbean: Glaucoma, Cataract, Diabetic&nbsp;Retinopathy &#8211; the group of conditions which cause&nbsp;blindness in children, and Refractive errors.&#8221; &#8211; Arvel Grant, CEO CCB\/Eye Care Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Download the World Sight Day Bulletin&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"ecc\/Special_Bulletins\/Bulletin%20-%20World%20Sight%20Day%202011.pdf\">here<\/a>: <\/b><\/p>\n<p> <!--more--> <b> <\/b> <a title=\"View World Sight Day 2011 Bulletin on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/68705941\/World-Sight-Day-2011-Bulletin\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">World Sight Day 2011 Bulletin<\/a>  <object data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,32,18\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" style=\"outline: none;\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=68705941&amp;access_key=key-1gg1oltpsqp2if73hrqc&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" \/><embed height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" flashvars=\"document_id=68705941&amp;access_key=key-1gg1oltpsqp2if73hrqc&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" wmode=\"opaque\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Sight Day 2011&nbsp;provides an&nbsp;opportunity to reflect&nbsp;on actions necessary&nbsp;to: Prevent blindness&nbsp;and visual&nbsp;impairment; While&nbsp;restoring sight and&nbsp;creating equal&nbsp;opportunities to&nbsp;persons whose sight&nbsp;cannot be restored. &#8220;As I write this brief message, I have no doubt that&nbsp;thousand of persons are becoming blind from one or&nbsp;more of the 5 leading causes of preventable blindness&nbsp;in the Caribbean: Glaucoma, Cataract, Diabetic&nbsp;Retinopathy &#8211; the group of conditions which cause&nbsp;blindness in children, and Refractive errors.&#8221; &#8211; Arvel Grant, CEO CCB\/Eye Care Caribbean. 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