Noor Dubai Foundation has announced the start of conducting the first comprehensive health survey for eye diseases, all forms of visual impairment, and other diseases related to and affecting the eyes, in cooperation with the Dubai Health Authority and the Dubai Statistics Center, in addition to two hospitals (Medcare, Zahra) and the Research Center Australian Eye Health, Rivoli Group Ajay Dayal Deputy Group CEO.
During the press conference held at the Health Authority headquarters in Dubai yesterday, the Noor Dubai Foundation signed a set of memoranda of understanding with the strategic partners supporting and implementing the survey process, in the presence of the Director General of the Dubai Health Authority, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Foundation, Hamid Muhammad Al Qatami.
Al-Qatami said that the Noor Dubai Foundation has always taken the initiative to implement preventive and curative plans and programs to combat blindness and all forms of visual disabilities and their causes worldwide, and that the Foundation has made many continuous achievements, and has succeeded in protecting more than 27 million people from such disabilities, which represent a threat to the forces Produced in societies.
He stressed that the institution possesses the expertise, capabilities and capabilities that qualify it to conduct scientific and field surveys in the Emirate of Dubai as required, and it also has the tools that help in preparing and implementing prevention and treatment plans, according to its results.
Al-Qatami indicated that the authority supports this survey directly, as part of the system of prevention of diseases that adopt implementation, including eye diseases.
For her part, Manal Trim reported that the survey extends to all chronic and hereditary diseases related to eye diseases and those that affect vision, including diabetes, explaining that according to the results of the research, preventive, treatment and rehabilitation strategies will be prepared.