World’s BIG Breakfast held in Sydney CBD’s Wynyard Park

Whilst proceedings were informal there was a small introduction and a handout that hopefully will be used by the general media in attendance to create a buzz about glaucoma awareness during World Glaucoma Week (9-15 March).The BIG Breakfast was part of Glaucoma Australia’s campaign to rind the community that glaucoma is largely an invisible disease and that the best insurance is to have an optic nerve check as part of a regular eye examination.Glaucoma Australia, like practitioners, is concerned that an estimated 150,000 people in Australia who have glaucoma don’t know it, however the good news is that it can be detected through an eye examination and largely treated.Also, that early detection and treatment are the keys to halting or delaying sight loss and blindness caused by the disease, especially if there is a family history of the disease as it runs in families.The long table dressed with white-linen tableclothsPlenty of discussion at the long table