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    Meghrigian Institute Concludes Project on Vision Related Quality of Life


    In December 2014, the Garo Meghrigian Institute for Preventive
    Ophthalmology (Meghrigian Institute) of the American University of Armenia
    (AUA)'s School of Public Health concludes the project `Visual Impairment
    and Vision - Related Quality of Life Among Patients with Cataract Surgery
    in Sevan Regional Ophthalmic Unit, Gegharkunik Marz.'

    The Meghrigian Institute launched this project to celebrate World Sight Day
    on October 9, 2014. The project has included free eye examinations among
    patients who underwent cataract surgery at Sevan Regional Ophthalmic Unit
    in Gegharkunik marz and an assessment of their vision-related quality of
    life. On the first day of screenings, the team from the Meghrigian
    Institute examined 23 patients in Sevan. The project has covered several
    towns in Gegharkunik marz (Sevan, Gavar, Martuni, Vardenis, and Tchambarak)
    and other cities in Armenia, including Hrazdan, Charentsavan, and Yerevan.
    The project has targeted over 460 people.

    World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on
    blindness and vision impairment. This year, the `Call to Action' for World
    Sight Day has been `No More Avoidable Blindness.' Since 1999, the
    Meghrigian Institute has focused on eliminating preventable blindness in
    Armenia through a number of activities, including eye screenings among
    socially vulnerable children and older populations living in retirement
    homes and border villages, delivering educational programs to
    ophthalmologists, ophthalmic nurses, endocrinologists and primary care
    providers, donating ophthalmic equipment to ophthalmic offices of primary
    care facilities, and strengthening preventive, primary and secondary level
    ophthalmic services to expand service delivery to under-served populations
    in need of affordable, accessible, and high quality eye care services for
    prevention and treatment of blindness at all levels.

    The AUA School of Public Health works actively to improve the health of
    the populace and health services in Armenia and the region through
    interdisciplinary education and development of public health professionals
    and others to be leaders in public health, health services research and
    evaluation, and health care delivery and management.

    Founded in 1991, the American University of Armenia (AUA) is a private,
    independent university located in Yerevan, Armenia and affiliated with the
    University of California. AUA provides a global education in Armenia and
    the region, offering high-quality, graduate and undergraduate studies,
    encouraging civic engagement, and promoting public service and democratic
    values.

    Eye examinations
    among patients who underwent cataract surgery at Sevan Regional Ophthalmic
    Unit in Gegharkunik marz

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