Eye disease effort undermined by 'glacial' leadership

By Russell Skelton
Updated January 7 2013 - 11:08am, first published December 29 2012 - 3:00am
Eradication ... Hugh Taylor, head of the indigenous eye health unit at Melbourne University says trachoma could be eliminated in five years.
Eradication ... Hugh Taylor, head of the indigenous eye health unit at Melbourne University says trachoma could be eliminated in five years.

A NATIONAL strategy to eradicate the blinding eye disease trachoma in remote indigenous Australia is failing to achieve its objective because of bureaucratic bungling and indifference by NSW, which has Australia's biggest indigenous population.

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