They contend that clubbing one-eyed persons with other visual handicap categories will dilute the benefit to the latter. This occurs in spite of the Ministry of Health's notification that a person with <40% disability will not be eligible for benefits/concessions. However, even one-eyed persons (30% disability) request certification. Most persons seeking visual disability certification in this institution do so for severe disability (75-100% category). Finally, a classification was created using the national program for control of blindness (NPCB) definitions of normal vision, low vision, and blindness, and including every possible combination of vision in the two eyes of a visually disabled patient. The disability percentage recorded by the board was compared with the current classification, in order to determine the extent and type of disparity, if any. Data were handled in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. To protect anonymity, the names of patients were not noted we identified them by serial numbers. Data relating to vision in both eyes and the disability percentage accorded by the disability board was retrieved and entered into an MS Excel worksheet.
In addition, the last hundred records of patients who had been classified as visually disabled in this hospital were screened. The current classification of visual disability was critically examined to determine which combinations of vision did not find a place in the classification.
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