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Trop Doct 2008;38:54-55
doi:10.1258/td.2007.060207
© 2008 Royal Society of Medicine Press

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Assessing the visual status of truck drivers in a developing country

O O Onabolu MBBS      T O Otulana MBBS     O G Awodein MBBS  

Department of Ophthalmology, Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, Ogun State, Nigeria

Corresponding to: Dr (Mrs) O O Onabolu, Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul, Gambia

We undertook an interventional prospective study of truck drivers from a cement factory in Nigeria to assess their visual status after licensing. Out of 149 drivers, 122 (81.9%) were visually eligible to drive and 27 (18.1%) were not. Causes for failing the vision test included refractive error, cataracts, glaucoma, corneal leucoma and pterygia.


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