Vision For Cause Programme

VFC program was conducted in Government upper primary School, Vennakkara in the Palakkad District of Kerala state on 22nd  and 23rd of August 2022 .A total of 10 Optometrists participated in the program along with other staff members.  A total of 721 children and 16 adults (total of 737) were tested on 2 days as mentioned in the above table.  The prevalence of refractive errors was found to be 7.8% (70 out of 721), which is too low when compared to global data. It needs to be further study this population for the upcoming VFC programs