World Sight Day Essay Writing Challenge

World Sight Day Essay Writing Challenge: To commemorate the World Sight Day in year 2020, we launched an essay writing competition on the topic, “the challenges and opportunities of eye healthcare digitalization in African communities towards the actualization of universal health coverage.”

The purpose of the competition was to stimulate intellectual ideas on how eye care can be digitalized to serve under-served African communities. The need for this innovation is exacerbated in the advent of the COIVD-19 pandemic which limited access to physical healthcare