Health Ministry: 80 percent of eye diseases are preventable, treatable

Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad. -Starpic

JOHOR BARU: At least 80 percent of all blindness or limited vision cases can be prevented or treated.

Health Minister Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad said that based on a National Eye Survey in 2014, there are at least 1.2 percent or 63,000 Malaysians who had been diagnosed as blind in the country.