June 6, 2012 is the 17th National “Eye Care Day”, and the theme of this year’s “Eye Care Day” is “Sharing a Harmonious New Vision for Cataract Patients”. In order to further improve the eye health of Chinese residents and gradually eliminate blindness caused by cataracts, the following is the notice on the 2012 National “Eye Care Day” activities: First, attach great importance to the prevention and treatment of cataract blindness. From 2009 to 2011, the Ministry of Health and the China Disabled Persons’ Federation jointly organized and implemented the “One Million Poor Cataract Patients’ Sight Restoration Project”, which helped 1.09 million poor cataract patients regain their sight in three years, effectively reducing the number of blind people caused by cataracts in China. However, cataract is still the most important cause of blindness in China. Health administrative departments at all levels and the Disabled Persons’ Federation should fully understand the importance of solving the problem of cataract blindness and continue to vigorously carry out the prevention and treatment of cataract blindness, especially among the poor, in conjunction with the key work of deepening the reform of the medical and health system and the arrangements for the prevention and treatment of blindness in the 12th Five-Year Plan period, so as to further improve the coverage of cataract restoration in China. We will continue to vigorously carry out the prevention and treatment of cataract blindness, especially among the poor, and further improve the coverage rate of cataract surgery in China, striving to achieve the goal of “the right to see for everyone by 2020”. Second, careful deployment, “Love Eye Day” special activities at all levels of health administration departments and disability associations to fully understand the “Love Eye Day” special activities to popularize eye health knowledge, protect the people’s eye health level of significance and role, combined with the prevention and treatment of blindness daily work, around the theme of the campaign, the “Eye Care Day” is a special event. They should combine the daily work of blindness prevention and treatment with the theme of activities, formulate the work plan of “Eye Care Day” activities, determine the specialized agencies and personnel in charge, and carefully organize the implementation. During the “Eye Care Day” activities, we should organize and mobilize medical and health personnel and the staff of the Disabled Persons’ Federation to go into urban communities, rural areas and townships to carry out voluntary consultations, advice, lectures, etc., focusing on providing eye treatment and eye care services for the poor and vulnerable, the elderly and the disabled, helping urban and rural residents to master eye care knowledge, cultivate scientific eye To reduce the incidence of eye diseases and blindness. Third, increase health education efforts to raise public awareness of blindness prevention and treatment Health administrative departments at all levels and the Disabled Persons’ Federation to further increase the prevention and treatment of blindness health education efforts, and actively communicate and coordinate with the news media, through television, radio, newspapers, the Internet and 12320 national public health hotline and other channels, multiform, multi-angle publicity national blindness prevention and treatment policy, the introduction of blindness prevention and treatment projects, the dissemination of Eye care knowledge, actively guide the general public to pay attention to vision health, improve public awareness of blindness prevention and treatment to strengthen interdepartmental communication and coordination, establish a working mechanism to promote the campaign to depth, to ensure that the publicity measures to achieve effective results.