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Paediatric ophthalmology is one of the most important subspecialities that cater to children’s eye health. This is an important and challenging issue across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified childhood blindness and genetic eye diseases as priority eye diseases as a part of its global eye health action plan for 2014–2019. It is challenging to treat paediatric eye diseases as vision impairment may result from the disease entity per se, or from disruption of the normal visual and neurological developmental processes, or a combination of both.
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Ichhpujani, P., Thakur, S. (2018). Apps and Social Networking Pages for Strabismus and Paediatric Ophthalmology. In: Smart Resources in Ophthalmology. Current Practices in Ophthalmology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0140-7_7
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