Question: 2016 World Sight Day was celebrated on which of the following day?
(a) 14 October
(b) 13 October
(c) 16 October
(d) 12 October
Ans: (b)
Related facts:
- On 13 October 2016; World Sight Day 2016 was celebrated across the world.
- The theme for this year is ‘Stronger Together’.
- World Sight Day (WSD) is an annual day of awareness held on the second Thursday of October.
- It is celebrated to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment.
- According to World Health Organization(WHO) approximately 285 million people worldwide live with low vision and blindness.
- Of these, 39 million people are blind and 246 million have moderate or severe visual impairment
- VISION 2020 is a global initiative that aims to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020.
Reference:
http://www.iapb.org/wsd16
http://www.who.int/blindness/partnerships/vision2020/en/