Bangladesh is a flood prone country, adjacent to India. 65% of the total populations are living under extreme poverty line whose average daily family income is bellows BP 1.00. They are utterly failed to manage subsistence for their family. Family members are mal-nourishment and facing acute vitamin A deficiency. 94% of the children are malnourished and 30,000 are becoming blind every year for Vitamin A deficiency.

National Eye Science Dhaka conducted a survey in 2000 on Bangladesh national blindness and low vision over 30 age’s people at 6 divisions of Bangladesh by the financial support of Sight Saver International and London School of tropical Medicine. The survey result show that 1.53% people of total population is blind or eye sight defects. 80% of them are cataract blind. Where cataract operation is needed 2500-3000 in per million people but there only 1000 operations are being completed. Every year 150 thousand people become blind due to improper eye care.

Another survey was conducted by Bangladesh National Blindness and low vision survey 2000 shows that among one million people 9,925 children are bearing eye sight problem and of them 300 children become blind of which 100 are the cataract blind.

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