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Health and Lifestyle – Ending avoidable blindness


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Tomorrow (Thursday) is World Sight Day and one of the highlights will be on removing cataract. South Africa is said to have an estimated more than 250,000 blind people due to cataracts and 40-60%. It is also said that of those who are visually impaired, they experience vision loss as a direct result of cataracts. To find what exactly it is and what some of the signs are and also the ages that are most affected, we are joined by…

Guest: Dr Bayanda Mbambisa - Chairperson of Right to Sight (Ophthalmologist)

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