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Newslaundry
National
Sumedha Mittal

‘For 2 years he said he couldn’t see the blackboard’: The blind spots in Delhi school system

In a cramped single-room home behind North-West Delhi’s economic hub, 12-year-old Ishita Kasera squints at her textbook, struggling to make out words that should be clear. Two years after her first complaints of headaches and blurry vision, her left eye has deteriorated to a prescription of -2.5 – a preventable condition had she received timely intervention.

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