The prevalence rates of myopia among Indian school goers has doubled over the last decade due to excess use of electronic gadgets.
An AIIMS study has highlighted an alarming trend in which rates of myopia — or shortsightedness — among school-going children in India has doubled up to be 13 per cent. Excess use of electronic gadgets is to blame, according to the study.
Over 13 per cent of school-going children in India have turned myopic, an AIIMS study shows, adding that the number has doubled in the last decade due to excess usage of electronic gadgets.
According to the Rajendra Prasad Center for Ophthalmic Sciences at AIIMS, the statistics for the disorder a decade ago was only 7 per cent. Among the other nations which follow the increase in the problem among its children are China, Singapore and Thailand.