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The Optometry Department of the College of Applied Medical Sciences at Qassim University organized a field campaign for early detection of vision problems among primary school students in the Qassim region under the supervision of a group of professors and doctors of the department and with the participation of a large number of college students. The visits of the participants in the campaign included examining about 7,000 pupils in 25 primary schools for boys and girls in the Qassim region, with advanced examination devices belonging to the college, which were transferred to the site of these schools, and school directors were also given a detailed list of the names of students with vision problems to inform their families. To follow up on their condition at an early stage in the medical optometry clinics at the university.
These campaigns come within the framework of the efforts made by Qassim University in its various faculties to serve the people of the region, as the Department of Optometry at the College of Applied Medical Sciences has been used for several years to run such campaigns with the beginning of each semester. Prof. Dr. Yusef bin Hammoud Al-Dabbasi, Dean of the College of Applied Medical Sciences, confirmed that the campaign is continuing for the seventh year in a row and is carried out in coordination with the Education Department in the Qassim Region, indicating that scientific studies have proven that the refractive errors of (myopia, farsightedness, and stigmatism) constitute one of the The most important causes of blindness in the world. Al-Dabbasi stated that these refractive errors and other eye diseases can be combated and eliminated or their complications reduced in the event of early detection, and from this standpoint, the campaign targeted primary school students to bring out a new generation that does not suffer from vision problems.
