Pervasive Blindness and ocular morbidity in the Chepang people of Nepal

Authors

  • Amrit Pokharel School of Optometry, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon
  • Himal Kandel Discipline of Optometry, Flinders University, Adelaide
  • Priyanka Shrestha Department of Ophthalmology, Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3126/nepjoph.v8i2.17021

Keywords:

blindness, ocular morbidity, Chepang

Abstract

Blindness, which is a major burden on the individual and the society, was observed to be pervasively present in a region inhabited by an undermined, disadvantaged ethnic people, the Chepang (Köberlein et al., 2013). Such a plight heralds escalating, already- fragile eye health care in the remote region of Nepal (Ghimire, 2015). 

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Published

2017-03-22

How to Cite

Pokharel, A., Kandel, H., & Shrestha, P. (2017). Pervasive Blindness and ocular morbidity in the Chepang people of Nepal. Nepalese Journal of Ophthalmology, 8(2), 189–191. https://doi.org/10.3126/nepjoph.v8i2.17021

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Letter to the Editor

License

© Nepalese Journal of Opthalmology