Tribune News Service
Shimla, August 25
As many as 250 visually impaired patients got their vision restored at the Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) and hospital with the help of donated eyes. Over 1,100 live donors have donated their eyes to the IGMC eye bank.
This has come to light on the eve of National Eye Donation Fortnight, being launched by the Health Department to facilitate cadaver as well live eye donations, from August 25 to September 8.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM : “If a person is determined to work hard and achieve bigger things. Then blindness or other impediments will not be a barrier for them,” says P Balaraman, a national chess champion.
Melanie Knecht and Trevor Hahn are hiking buddies, both from Colorado. However, they aren’t a conventional hiking team.
While the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) established rules to help disabled Americans access businesses in the real world, accessing online businesses has become a growing problem in recent years, stemming from a lack of accessibility options on many websites. As a result, online businesses are running the risk of alienating visually impaired consumers and potentially locking themselves out of a major revenue stream in the process, according to a newly released study.
New York, Augmented Reality (AR) glasses can help people with low vision better navigate their environment as the eye-wearable device managed to enhance mobility and function in patients who have difficulty with peripheral vision or seeing in low light, say researchers.
The research was conducted with patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative eye disease that results in poor vision.
The non-profit that runs a network of radio stations for Australia’s blind and low vision community says it will be off the air by next year unless the government intervenes to restore its funding.
Vision Australia, which operates 10 radio stations across Victoria, southern New South Wales, Adelaide and Perth, says it is facing a $700,000 shortfall after responsibility for disability funding was transferred to the national disability insurance scheme.
Scientists from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy have developed an eye implant to restore the eyesight of a blind person by stimulating the optic nerve with a new type of an intraneural electrode called OpticSELINE.
Acouncil that brought in yellow taxis to help the visually impaired plans to paint them black in a bid to save money, angering disability charities.
Derby City Council introduced a policy in 2001 to paint their cabs yellow to make them more identifiable for customers, including the partially-sighted.
But council has announced that it plans to change the colour of its taxis back to black to save drivers who have to paint and maintain the yellow vehicles.
Sahana Charitable Trust for the Disabled in Bengaluru was founded by three visually impaired people. Their main motive is to empower visually impaired youngsters through education and technology. The founders share their journey on how they started this venture.
Score Foundation, founded by New Delhi based George Abraham, has been providing various services to visually impaired people from across India since the year 2002. Abraham shares his inspiring journey with Newzhook readers.
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