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‘Liquid eyeglasses’: solving the dire lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries

Monday, September 21, 2009 17:45 By GSerrano

A lack of optometrists in the world’s poorest countries means that the poor cannot have their much-needed glasses. One such country is Ghana where there is just one optometrist for every eight million people.
There is now a technological solution to this situation which could ‘provide glasses for one billion people.’ Joshua Silver, a physics professor [...]

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