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Dear colleagues,
A new team takes over the affairs of the Glaucoma Society of India. It is my pleasant privilege to communicate to all of you, on the re-launch of the official website.
The last two decades saw an explosion in our understanding of glaucoma. We have new and powerful medications in the treatment. There have been significant advances in the use of lasers and surgical treatment.
We the office bearers of the society look forward to working with all of you to enhance our understanding of the disease, besides providing inputs for spreading the knowledge and awareness about glaucoma.
Given the tremendous activity in glaucoma research, we will strive to update the members of the society with the current knowledge, through a series of satellite meetings, besides the annual meeting. These meeting will consider and address the need for consensus in the definition, diagnosis and progression in glaucoma. Consensus will be established for scientific management of glaucoma, based on current knowledge and use of scientific data.
Because glaucoma is a progressive disease causing irreversible visual loss, usually without warning until relatively advanced, and because 50% of affected people in the developed world, and 90% in developing countries, do not know they have it, and are not on treatment, we believe community awareness needs to be increased. This includes awareness of the disease, and of the need to have regular eye checks, thereby permitting earlier detection and avoidance of what should be preventable visual disability.
We will work for recognition by national and international organizations and several governments in various ways for mutual benefit.
I look forward to fruitful interaction with all of you, in order to enhance our understanding of this disease and provide the patients with better glaucoma care, to the best of our knowledge and ability.
(Dr B. Sridhar Rao)
A new team takes over the affairs of the Glaucoma Society of India. It is my pleasant privilege to communicate to all of you, on the re-launch of the official website.
The last two decades saw an explosion in our understanding of glaucoma. We have new and powerful medications in the treatment. There have been significant advances in the use of lasers and surgical treatment.
We the office bearers of the society look forward to working with all of you to enhance our understanding of the disease, besides providing inputs for spreading the knowledge and awareness about glaucoma.
Given the tremendous activity in glaucoma research, we will strive to update the members of the society with the current knowledge, through a series of satellite meetings, besides the annual meeting. These meeting will consider and address the need for consensus in the definition, diagnosis and progression in glaucoma. Consensus will be established for scientific management of glaucoma, based on current knowledge and use of scientific data.
Because glaucoma is a progressive disease causing irreversible visual loss, usually without warning until relatively advanced, and because 50% of affected people in the developed world, and 90% in developing countries, do not know they have it, and are not on treatment, we believe community awareness needs to be increased. This includes awareness of the disease, and of the need to have regular eye checks, thereby permitting earlier detection and avoidance of what should be preventable visual disability.
We will work for recognition by national and international organizations and several governments in various ways for mutual benefit.
I look forward to fruitful interaction with all of you, in order to enhance our understanding of this disease and provide the patients with better glaucoma care, to the best of our knowledge and ability.
(Dr B. Sridhar Rao)