Armenian Ophthalmology Project specialists will check the eyesight of women and underage prisoners on October 8. The initiative supported by Armenian Ministries of Healthcare and Justice as well as the USAID is dated to World Sight Day marked on the second Thursday of October.

World Sight Day is an annual day of awareness to focus global attention on blindness, visual impairment and rehabilitation of the visually impaired. This year the focus is on eye health and equal access care.