Red eyes have in recent times had people in Uganda looking over their shoulder. In this explainer, Tonny Abet tells you everything you need to know about the disease
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Why Uganda has high blindness cases
Sunday April 04 2021
An optician conducts an eye test on a patient during a health camp at Victorious Primary School, in Mengo, Kampala in 2019. PHOTOs | RACHEL MABALA
Summary
The retired medical worker revealed to this reporter that his wife (unnamed) was also operated last month because of cataracts and glaucoma.
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He says the operation followed a shocking loss of sight after a painless disease attacked his eyes.
“Five years ago, I started experiencing strange changes in my eyes. Every day I looked at my face in the mirror, my left eye was narrowing. But there was no pain in the eye,” he recalls.