A study has found that teleophthalmology services in diabetes care centres can prevent late detection of eye complications. This can prevent blindness due to diabetes.
Diabetic retinopathy remains undetected till in the late stages and leads to sight loss. The progressive disease can manifest as blurred sight or vision loss or bleeding in the eye with the patient seeking ophthalmic services too late.
However, providing ophthalmic services in a diabetes care centre can arrest disease progression, says V. Mohan, founder-chairman of Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre.
