On October 8, 2024 the World Health Organisation declared that the Government of India has eliminated Trachoma as a public health problem, making it the third country in the region after Nepal and Myanmar to achieve this feat.
Trachoma, a leading cause of infectious blindness, is a chlamydial infection which happens due to lack of hygiene, unclean water supply and can spread by contact with eye, nose, or throat secretions of a person suffering with the disease or indirectly via flies. PTI PLB MNK MNK