One in every 13 person in Bangladesh has diabetes totaling to 7.1 million people. Bangladesh has one of the highest rate of diabetes and diabetes related complications in the world including preventable blindness. Once you get diabetes, it then starts affecting all your other organs like your eyes, feet and kidneys. The great thing about working in the field of avoidable blindness is that, 80% of all blindness is avoidable and preventable. If we can prevent the onset of diabetes with those things then we do not even need a programme to treat blindness.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 24, 2017 19:18 UTC