Globally, the burden of Trauma and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a public health problem and it was highlighted in the recent World Mental Health survey carried-out in 24 different countries across the globe. The results indicated that 70.4% of all respondents had experienced different types of traumatic events. Man-made events that occur in many societal contexts, are a major reason for trauma.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 33 million people worldwide are currently blind and 191 million live with severely impaired vision. Unfortunately, 90% of these people live in the poorest parts of the world.
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On 31 December 2019, pneumonia of unknown cause was detected
in Wuhan, China. Later it was named “Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome” [1]. On 30 January 2020, the outbreak was declared a Public
Health Emergency of International Concern [1,2]. Later on, WHO named
this pneumonia a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the virus
was named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARSCOV-
2) [3].
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