The Glaucoma Support Group and Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, organised a walk on Sunday morning in which over 250 people walked from the Rock Garden to Sukhna lake to spread awareness about glaucoma.
Prof Amod Gupta, former head Advanced Eye Center, Prof. Jagat Ram, HOD Advanced Eye Center, Dr. Neelam Mannsing an eminent theater personality, Dr. Ram Kumar a leading practitioner and well know proponent of ethics in medicine led the walk.
The Glaucoma walk was organised on the occasion of the World Glaucoma Week, which is observed every year in the second week of March to increase public awareness about glaucoma. Glaucoma afflicts about 12-13 million people in India. It is estimated that about 90 per cent of people with glaucoma in our country remain undiagnosed.