Slightly more than half the number of people who took advantage of community eye screening offered by the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) found out they had a problem with their eyes.
Since 2000, SNEC has been providing free screening to close to 16,000 people aged 50 years and older at the annual event. Of those screened, one in four has cataract.
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