Open AccessCataract Surgery: Limitations and barriers in Makurdi, Benue State
Author(s) -
CO Ojabo,
OO Alao
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nigerian journal of medicine/the nigerian journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-0526
pISSN - 1115-2613
DOI - 10.4314/njm.v18i3.51166
Subject(s) - medicine , cataract surgery , blindness , intervention (counseling) , presentation (obstetrics) , visual impairment , senile cataract , surgery , optometry , psychiatry
Cataract is amenable to surgery; despite this affected patients do not always embrace or accept cataract surgical intervention. The study aims to ascertain the factors responsible for this negative attitude towards cataract surgery by affected patients.