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        "id": 1102244,
        "msgid": "cataracts-common-in-c-kalimantan-1447893297",
        "date": "2001-10-16 00:00:00",
        "title": "Cataracts common in C. Kalimantan",
        "author": null,
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        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Cataracts common in C. Kalimantan PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: The number of blind people in the province has reached more than 26,000, or 1.5 percent of the local population, due to the shortage of ophthalmologists.",
        "content": "<p>Cataracts common in C. Kalimantan<\/p>\n<p>PALANGKA RAYA, Central Kalimantan: The number of blind people<br>\nin the province has reached more than 26,000, or 1.5 percent of<br>\nthe local population, due to the shortage of ophthalmologists.<\/p>\n<p>Wildan, chief of the public health service section at the<br>\nlocal health ministry office, said on Saturday that many local<br>\npeople who had suffered blindness caused by cataracts and vitamin<br>\nA deficiency could not gain access to medical treatment,<br>\nincluding surgery, because of the shortage of ophthalmologists in<br>\ncertain areas.<\/p>\n<p>\"At present, the province has just one, in the provincial<br>\ncapital,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wildan said that of more than 13,500 people suffering<br>\ncataracts, over 1,700 had gone blind.<\/p>\n<p>He said the provincial government, in cooperation with the<br>\nDharmais Foundation in Jakarta, would carry out a free eye care<br>\nprogram to provide medication, including surgery, for cataract<br>\nsufferers in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Such a program has been in operation since 1993 and a total of<br>\n2,192 cataract sufferers have benefited from it. --Antara<\/p>",
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