 There is a need for a regular eye test in order to detect and treat glaucoma before it enters the danger zone. These were words from experts as the world marks Glaucoma Week and Plus TV News Health correspondent Mgozika Hachichi has more in this report. Each year, the world glaucoma week adopts a common theme to observe the initiative. This year's theme is the world is bright, save your sight. This brings to fall the need for citizens to take responsibility and good care of their eye to prevent vision impairment and irreversible blindness caused by glaucoma and other blinding eye conditions. This initiative puts spotlight on glaucoma as a leading cause of preventable irreversible blindness worldwide. However, so many people are on a way they have the disease or may not have access to much need care. This is Bethesda home for the blind. Some visually impaired students tell us the story of how the silent thief stole their sight away. Meet Nathaniel Nduque, a 200-level visually impaired student of the University of Lagos, who wasn't born blind. We started, let's say about 10 years ago, when I was working with Jilosbegan and Gila PLC as a subcontractor. So that is when I started noticing the slight change on my sight. So just like that, I started going from one eye clinic to another. That's when they now confirmed it to be glaucoma. Christopher is seeing heart similar experience in Nathaniel. He used to believe that blindness affect older people until he was cut up with a blindness in his early 20s. I used to pay people to take me out. Before you take me out, people demand money from me. They ask me for money. I'll pay you. I don't have that money to pay them. They feel that embarrassment and everything. So now challenge on the road and everything. Their eye condition isn't stopping them from improving and working towards achieving greater visions. I passed through the craft class, so I learned how to make bead otherwise. So before I now move to the jump class, where I start for jump, so there have been a lot of improvement. Who would ever believe that a blind person can still go to school? You can bring any computer to me now. I will operate it the way you operate a computer. There's no phone. I can tell you that even myself now, I can challenge you now. Let's make it a phone. There's nothing you can do on phone I cannot do. With over 15 years of experience as an optometrist and an eyewitness promoter, Rose Azike speaks on how to reduce the risk of developing glaucoma. Now, number one is the family history of glaucoma. If your mother, your father, or someone in your family has glaucoma, there's a likely chance your risk of getting it is high because it's hereditary. That's number one. Then two is age starting from age 40. People that age 40 and are built at an increased risk of getting glaucoma, then other things are eye injury or colatrauma. She wants the government at all level and private organizations to create an awareness about glaucoma while advising regular checks of the eye. Ngozika or high chest class TV news. Get to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.