Singapore, Jan. 25 -- Slightly more than half the number of people who took advantage of community eye screening offered by the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) found out they had a problem with their eyes.
Since 2000, SNEC has been providing free screening to close to 16,000 people aged 50 years and older at the annual event. Of those screened, one in four has cataract.
Professor Ecosse Lamoureux, director of population health at the Singapore Eye Research Institute, said a small number had eye problems that "required an acute referral" to a hospital emergency department or to see an ophthalmologist within the following couple of days.
The other 8,000 had problems that did not need immediate treatment. The most common was catarac...