President Bola Tinubu has declared his support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health Programme and the Peek Vision Foundation to provide more than 5 million pairs of eyeglasses to Nigerians with sight impairments.
Tinubu said this during a courtesy visit by the Founder and CEO of Peek Vision Foundation and Co-Founder of the Vision Catalyst Fund, Professor Andrew Bastawrous, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
In a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, the President said his experience with his late mother who battled health challenges made him pledge to pursue the mass provision of eye care vigorously and to provide free eye screenings and surgeries to people.
He also expressed concern about the more than 24 million Nigerians grappling with varying degrees of vision impairments, stating that his government will implement policies to mitigate the trend.
