Nearsightedness is on the rise among Hong Kong children, with close to 80,000 found to be suffering the condition in the last school year, a 10.5 per cent increase.
Department of Health figures showed rates among primary and secondary pupils were 21.7 per cent and 15.8 per cent respectively in the 2014-15 school year.
The data was made available on Tuesday as eye experts warned that nearsightedness, or myopia, in children had become an imminent public health issue and called on the...
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