Blind charity advocates national registry of eye disease cases

Opportunities to benefit from major breakthroughs on sight-loss will be lost without a national registry of patients with eye disease, Fighting Blindness has warned.

The leading patient-led charity yesterday called for the establishment of a national register, during a conference in Dublin which featured some of the world’s leading sight experts.

Sight-loss affects around 224,000 people in Ireland, a figure which is expected to increase to 272,000 by 2020.