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In line with Sight Saving Month , healthy eyesight advocates on Sunday paid tribute to Dr. Jose Rizal the ophthalmologist.Led by the Department of Health , the groups held a wreath-laying ceremony at the Rizal Monument in Manila.Under Proclamation No. 40, the late president Ramon Magsaysay declared every first week of August as Sight-Conservation Week to hold a nationwide educational campaign to prevent blindness among Filipinos.
Rizal later worked as an assistant to a professor of ophthalmology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. The future national hero would fulfill his dream of caring for his mother's sight when he performed successful cataract surgery on his mother's left eye.Present at the event were DOH Health Promotion Bureau, Policy and Technology Division Chief Rodley Carza, The Fred Hollows Foundation Country Manager Dr.
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