Nicholas Comninellis

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January 2011

Low-Resource Healthcare Pearls

Prevent This Child’s Blindness

  This child is going blind as a result of scaring to his cornea. Some 250,000 to 500,000 children in low-resource communities throughout Africa and the Indian subcontinent go blind each year from dietary deficiency of vitamin A. Severe deficiency causes irreversible corneal damage, leading to partial or total visual impairment. Startlingly, about half of

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