上海将为30万居民免费筛查视力 - 2016年06月23日

HELPING residents to see better is the aim of a new health initiative, said officials yesterday.

The city is offering free vision screening for 300,000 people and rehabilitation for 30,000 people with eye problems over the next three years.

Experts from Shanghai Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, the program coordinator, said about 10 percent of local people suffer from vision disorders and a treatment network will be established to help them.