Noor Dubai Foundation 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 a center Australian Eye Health Research, and Rivoli Group Ajay Dayal Deputy Group CEO.

The importance of this survey - which is being conducted for the first time in the Emirate of Dubai - lies in providing accurate statistics for the strategic development of eye health care, which will be used to assess the general state of eye health. The survey also provides information and data necessary to prepare appropriate plans that will assist in prevention and treatment operations.

The survey targets 2190 people, 664 citizens and 727 residents, along with workers, for those who are forty years old and over.

During the press conference that was witnessed by the headquarters of the Health Authority 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.

The MoUs were signed by Noor Dubai, the Executive Director, a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, Dr. Manal Tarim, and by the Dubai Statistics Center, the Deputy Executive Director of the Center, Tariq Al-Janahi, and for Al-Zahra Hospital, the Hospital’s Executive Director, Dr. Muhaimin Abdul Ghani, and for Medcare Hospital, Director of Medical Centers Abdul Karima Barakah, Rivoli Group Deputy Group CEO, Ajay Dayal.

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 globally, 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 Of the productive forces in societies.

He emphasized 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 that 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 Tarim stated that the survey extends to include all chronic and hereditary diseases related to eye diseases that affect vision, including diabetes, explaining that according to the results of the research, preventive, treatment and rehabilitation strategies will be prepared.