WHO calls for scaling up eye, hearing care and prevention

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) latest update highlights a recent resolution that has called for improving access to vision and hearing care for billions of people.

WHO notes that the burden of unaddressed vision impairment and hearing loss remains disproportionately high in far too many countries and that there is an urgent need to address this.

In response, the resolution invites countries to adopt or adapt and implement the recommendations outlined in the World report on vision and World report on hearing. It says: “Doing so can help incorporate comprehensive eye, vision, ear and hearing care across the life course as a core element within national health plans and primary health-care initiatives towards universal health coverage.”

FODO and the NCHA, as the associations for primary eye care and primary care audiology providers in the UK, strongly support the call to action.