PORTALJABAR, DISTRICT. BOGOR - The Bogor Regional Government, through the Cariu Health Center, Cariu District, Bogor Regency, launched the Cataract Screening Corner (Frog Post), in order to accelerate the reduction in the rate of blindness due to cataracts and accelerate hearing loss and hearing loss in the people of Bogor Regency.

This Frog Post is an innovation that is engaged in cataract screening as well as providing education and outreach to the people of Bogor Regency.

Pos Katak also encourages the government's succession program which is based on the guidelines of Minister of Health Regulation Number 82 of 2020 concerning Management of Vision and Hearing Impairments.

As is known, cataracts are a degenerative disease that many elderly people suffer from. Cataracts can be found at all ages, including newborns.

Cataracts, which cause problems with the sense of sight, are often considered trivial by some ordinary people who do not understand the complications caused by cataracts themselves and many people are afraid to undergo eye health checks because they are afraid of undergoing surgery to treat problems such as cataracts.

From the 2014 Rapid Assessment of Avoiding Blindness (RAAB), the percentage of cataracts in West Java was 71.7 percent and 2.8 percent of these cataracts caused blindness.

Head of the Cariu Community Health Center, Elly Mulyati, revealed that Pos Katak aims to help capture the cataract community and optimize education and monitoring of cataracts both before and after surgery.

"This is also our effort to minimize the occurrence of complications. We are implementing the Frog Post in collaboration with eye doctors who work at the hospital and the Cariu Community Health Center," said the Head of the Cariu Community Health Center.

Elly Mulyati continued to say that with the Frog Post, they could provide free cataract surgery services to help people who do not have any health insurance.

"The presence of the Frog Post is expected to be able to meet the target of reducing the prevalence of visual impairment by 25 percent from the prevalence in 2017, especially in the Cariu District area by 2030 as planned by the government," he explained. (Diskominfo Bogor Regency/Fauziah)