'Child blindness is one of mankind's most shameful failures, and I wanted to do something about it.' 👏👏
Here, she speaks toabout how she founded Every Infant Matters and how other women can make a difference in their communities:Lucy Morgan: Thanks so much for joining us today, it's great to speak to you. Can you tell us a little bit about your organisation, Every Infant Matters?
Dr Batra: When I was a medical student, I was studying paediatrics, and I saw a lot of children die. I saw a lot of them become blind or disabled for reasons that affected me on a very personal level. I wanted to do something to remove and reverse these preventable problems from society.
In my hospital, I started distributing vitamin A to prevent blindness. When there's a deficiency of vitamin A in the body, it causes progressive blindness in malnourished children. It's something that you and I take for granted because we get it in our diets, we get good food, eggs and butter, but these are children who survive on meagre scraps of poor-quality food.
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