Glaucoma for 1 million Italians, early diagnosis difficult - Medicine. There are around 76 million people in the world with glau coma, around 1 million in our country, but around half of them are unaware of it.
Diagnosis is also made difficult by the country's current healthcare models, "no longer capable of managing the population's need for visual health" From Sunday 10 to Saturday 16 March the initiatives of the "World GlaucomA Week" of IAPB Italia Onlus will return to 100 Italian squares, a major awareness campaign that involves the territories in a widespread manner.