In a country where millions live with preventable visual impairment, the Mainstream Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited, has highlighted the need to consistently phase out blindness in Nigeria.
This comes as the foundation has conducted over 2,000 free cataract surgeries, distributed more than 6,000 pairs of glasses, and examined over 22,500 patients in the last 10 years.
Globally, the World Health Organisation estimates that over one billion people live with preventable vision impairment, most of them in developing countries. Nigeria represents a significant portion of that statistic, but through efforts like the Mainstream Foundation’s, the tide may be slowly turning.
Programme Manager at the Foundation, Zayyan Illo, decried the spread of blindness in riverine communities in
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