SMARTPHONES TO PREVENT BLINDNESS IN KENYA
"Peek" is a new app developed by experts of London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that could help thousands of people to get easy access to eye exams. This new app can help in the prevention and diagnose of eye ailments such as glaucoma, cataracts, myopia, and far-sightedness. With the implementation of this new technology there is hope to bring down the number of people who can get blind in the future due the lack of access to eye specialists.
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Reaching out to people without access to eye diagnoses is crucial because with early detection, blindness can be prevented or cured. Mr. Bastawrous in his TED talk explains how they detected that people in Kenya had more access to cellphones than they did to clean water. This is when his team saw a great opportunity to use the technology of smartphones for something that could give great benefits to the entire community. The app and the kit were then developed in London at the School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The kit needed with the app is portable and easy to use. It allows people to get complex eye tests without the need of having an expensive equipment.
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