W orld S ight D ay 2023 Theme: EYE Care in the Workplace World Sight Day is a global healthcare event celebrated on the 2nd Thursday of every October to emphasize public awareness with respect to shedding light on the prioritizing of vision and eye health 1 . This year, World Sight Day is celebrated on the 12th of October (Thursday). The theme for World Sight Day 2023 is “Love your eyes at work”, a global call to all corporate leaders to prioritize their worker’s eye health and understand the importance of vision at the workplace. Visual impairments have physical, emotional, social, and economic ramifications, and they play an essential role in determining one’s quality of life. Globally, nearly 2.2 billion individuals worldwide are visually impaired , and 100 million people suffer from a vision disability that could have been avoided or is still unaddressed. In coming years, the aging population and the rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes may
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