Indonesıa Eye Care

  epa02202777 A volunteer of the international non-governmental organisation ORBIS chats to Indonesian 4-year-old child , Adelia , her mother , before the volunteers will give eye surgery to her inside the Flying Eye Hospital ? a state-of-the-art hospital with wings , which is visiting Indonesia for four weeks , in Jakarta , Indonesia , on 15 June 2010 . According to the World Health Organization , South-East Asia has a disproportionately high prevalence of blindness . One third of the world ' s blind live in South-East Asia , which has one quarter of the global population . Of the twelve people going blind in the world every minute , four are from South- East Asia . Furthermore , the Indonesian Ministry of Health calculates that blindness in Indonesia affects approximately 1 . 3 million people ? the highest among Asian countries ?studies have suggested that 3-8 percent of the population have some form of impaired vision .  EPA/BAGUS INDAHONO
15 . 06 . 2010 10 : 25 : 01