{"id":8210,"date":"2018-03-17T18:40:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8210"},"modified":"2018-03-17T18:40:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:40:32","slug":"when-the-glaucoma-event-took-place-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8210","title":{"rendered":"When the Glaucoma event took place in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause irreversible blindness with no symptoms.<br \/>\nOver 70 million people suffer from Glaucoma worldwide with 10 million already blind. In Nigeria about 2 million persons over 40 years have Glaucoma and 360,000 are estimated to be blind .<br \/>\nThe Aso Rock Villa M\u00e9dical Centre commemorated the World Glaucoma Week between 12th &#8211; 16th March with an Awareness Walk in Abuja metropolis on the 12th to mark the onset of activities and free eye screening for hundreds of Nigerians during the period.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8212\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG-20180317-WA0024-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8213\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG-20180317-WA0025-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8214\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG-20180317-WA0026-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that cause irreversible blindness with no symptoms. Over 70 million people suffer from Glaucoma worldwide with 10 million already blind. In Nigeria about 2 million persons over 40 years have Glaucoma and 360,000 are estimated to be blind . The Aso Rock Villa M\u00e9dical Centre commemorated the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}