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Integrated People-Centred Eye Care (IPEC) is the only way we can meet the growing need and demand of eye health services globally. As a sector, we need to embrace IPEC and advocate for its adoption. We will have to come together at a national level to drive this change and actively promote this agenda to governments.
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Vision loss is widespread, and far too often goes untreated. The World Health Organisation’s first World Report on Vision, published in October 2019, states that globally, at least 2.2 billion people have a vision impairment or blindness, of whom at least 1 billion have a vision impairment that could have been prevented or has yet to be addressed.