_🔹PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS_ ▪️Proper diet (Vitamin A and proteins). ▪️Personal and environmental hygiene. ▪️Measles immunisation. ▪️Appropriate management of STIs in pregnant mothers and their sexual partners. ▪️Early referral of serious eye diseases and injuries. ▪️Tetracycline eye ointment in new borns. ▪️Early detection and appropriate management of diabetes stringent control of blood sugar. ▪️All diabetic patients should have screening of eye complications by ophthalmologist regularly starting from diagnosis of the disease. ▪️Early detection and appropriate management of hypertension. ▪️Early treatment of eye diseases by qualified health personnel including cataract surgery and early diagnosis and treatment ofglaucoma. ▪️Creation of community awareness on the dangers of using herbal medicines in the eye. ▪️Persistant conjunctival growths should be referred to ophthalmologist early. ▪️HIV positive patients must be screened for eye complications by ophthalmic nurse or ophthalmologist if symptomatic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♡ ㅤ    ⎙ㅤ   ⌲          🔕 ˡᶦᵏᵉ    ˢᵃᵛᵉ    ˢʰᵃʳᵉ    ᵘⁿᵐᵘᵗᵉ ᶜʰᵃⁿⁿᵉˡ