The dialogue will even take a look at early warning indicators, the significance of well timed eye screening, and measures that may assist forestall or sluggish the development of myopia. Picture used for representational functions solely
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August marks Youngsters’s Eye Well being and Security Month, with a concentrate on childhood imaginative and prescient and myopia. Towards this backdrop, The Hindu is holding a webinar, free for all, on Sunday, August 30, 2026.
The webinar will concentrate on refractive errors in kids, notably the rising concern over myopia, and look at whether or not growing display screen publicity and lowered time spent outside are contributing to modifications in kids’s imaginative and prescient. The dialogue will even take a look at early warning indicators, the significance of well timed eye screening, and measures that may assist forestall or sluggish the development of myopia.
Visitor audio system on the webinar embrace: Vasumathy Vedantham, ophthalmologist, vitreoretinal surgeon and paediatric retina specialist, Radhatri Nethralaya, Chennai, and Vasudha Kemmanu, marketing consultant paediatric ophthalmologist and public eye well being specialist, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru. The session shall be moderated by Athira Elssa Johnson, senior reporter, The Hindu.
The webinar will run from 11.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.
To register, scan the QR code under, on click on on this link.
Revealed – August 25, 2026 01:24 pm IST
