An NGO running a vision screening programme in remote areas has claimed that it conducted a record 31,000 tests in August.
The India Vision Institute (IVI) in a statement said, "The activities included 18,404 vision screenings in tribal schools in remote communities in Tamil Nadu's Kolli Hills, Namakkal, and Salem."
At a special event organised by IVI, 120 children screened earlier from among 1,942 at the Chennai Higher Secondary School received spectacles from the leader of the visiting Australian Trade Mission 2019, Mayor Stephen Bali MP of Blacktown City in New South Wales (NSW), the NGO said
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