An eye specialist and head of eye clinic at Rasheed Shekoni Specialist hospital in Dutse, Dr Abdullahi Idris disclosed this during a round table meeting between the ministry of health official, media and the team from the Health and Development Support Programme said out of the over six million people in Jigawa state about 2.4 million are children and estimate magnitude/burden 30,000 has one or another eye diseases.
According to him the major causes of child eye diseases include lack of vitamin A which take 60%, measles, trauma, Keratitis, HTM, ON among others and it happened through sexual transmitted diseases, ROP/pre-maturity and consanguineous/genetics. In his parts the director public health, Dr.Umar Bulangu said all identified children in primary and junior secondary schools were to enjoy free eye treatment by the Jigawa state government in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank of the United Kingdom under the Health and Development Support Programme in the state.
Also speaking the Jigawa state team leader for the project, Dr Abalis Dasat Abalis said the sum of N1.8 billion was released by the Standard Chartered Bank UK for the project in Nigeria where over 1.5 million children is targeted across the country.
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