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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