Addressing childhood blindness: A collective responsibility Authors Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary Professor of Paediatric Ophthalmology, The Children Hospital and The Institute of Child Health, Faisalabad, Pakistan. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.25-87 Abstract Childhood blindness remains a significant public healthconcern1 in Pakistan, placing a substantial economicburden2,3 on families and the wider community. TheNational Committee for the Prevention of Blindnessrecently revealed a sobering statistic: approximately onepercent of the Pakistani population lives in darkness, withan estimated 1.2 per 1,000 children affected. Alarmingly,at least one-third of these cases are preventable. Whilethe World Health Organization (WHO) and theInternational Agency for the Prevention of Blindness(IAPB) have launched global initiatives to eliminateavoidable blindness, childhood blindness being a prioritybut the real challenge lies in translating thesecommitments into concrete action at the national andcommunity levels. Continue... Downloads Full Text Article Published 2025-09-25 How to Cite Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhary. (2025). Addressing childhood blindness: A collective responsibility. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 75(10), 1516–1518. https://doi.org/10.47391/JPMA.25-87 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 75 No. 10 (2025): OCTOBER Section EDITORIAL License Copyright (c) 2025 Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.