To construct the national system for the management of glaucoma

Abstract

It is important and necessary to strength the prevention and treatment of glaucoma, since glaucoma is a serious irreversible blinding disease. Although we have done a lot of works in the prevention and treatment of glaucoma in China, there still exist some problems as follows: prevention and treatment of glaucoma have not been taken as the priority in the prevention of blindness, the national ranks and organizations for the prevention and treatment of glaucoma have not been established, the knowledge on glaucoma has not been popularized and updated in ophthalmologists, the supply network of glaucoma medicine has not been organized, the knowledge for prevention of glaucoma has not been disseminated in the public. For settling these problems, we should construct the national system for the management of glaucoma. Its major goal is to raise the detection rate of the glaucoma patients, to decrease the blinding rate caused by glaucoma, to improve the life quality of glaucoma patients, and to save the social cost from the glaucoma blindness. For better conducting these work, we should take the public health path, not only rely on the clinical path. In constructing the national system for the management of glaucoma, we may start out to organize the organizations for prevention and treatment of glaucoma matching with the local socio-economic status, to train and educate the professional teams for the prevention and treatment of glaucoma, to formulate the rules and regulations for managing glaucoma, and to strength the research works for the glaucoma.