The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Azare in Bauchi state, Dr Abubakar Dauda Katagum has lamented the prevalence of blindness in the North East subregion of the country.
He disclosed that recent health indices had rated the subregion as the highest in terms of number of people going blind due to various eye infections particularly, cataracts.
The CMD stated this while fielding questions from Journalists at the Permanent Site of FMC Azare during the free medical outreach sponsored by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for its presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu tagged JigiJagaban under the Envision a brighter future project.
