Country seeing more young children wearing glasses


KOSMO AHAD reported that close to a million children below 12 years wear glasses in Malaysia because they spend too much time on electronic gadgets such as tablets, handphones and video games.

According to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s faculty of science contact lens specialist Prof Dr Haliza Abdul Mutalib, there has been a rise in the number of young children wearing glasses and her youngest patient is a three-year-old.

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