KABUL, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- As the Afghans are observing the World Sight Day, some 400,000 blinds are living in the conflict- ridden Afghanistan, the spokesman for the Ministry of Public Health confirmed Sunday.
"Presently around 400,000 blinds exist in Afghanistan and some 25,000 Afghans lose at least the sight of one of their eyes annually in the country due to illness and other problems," Kaneshka Baktash told Xinhua.
However, he stated that the number of blinds in the war-torn country is going to drop down due to providing health services for the citizens, saying since establishing health clinics in rural areas over the past decade, the number of blinds is going to go down.
More than 80 percent of Afghanistan's some 28 million populations have access to health services in the post-Taliban Afghanistan, according to officials.
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