It is not unusual for such unregistered practitioners to be patronized by the political class resulting in wide-scale eye couching with all the related complications. Other factors accounting for this include scarcity of eye care personnel, limitation in technology and training for eye care, lack of local production of eye medicine, and other consumables leading to dependency on importation in the presence of limited foreign exchange availability, unrestrained and unregulated malpractices of quacks, and traditional eye care providers. Sub-Saharan Africa carries the worse burden with 4.8 million blind partly due to 66% population growth. While Africa hosts 11.9% of the World population, it also disproportionately accounts for about 15% of those avoidably blind. Age-related cataract is the leading cause of avoidable blindness.
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