Healthcare: Eurostat: Romania on the last places in the EU for cataract operations
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Cataract surgeries, which means the extraction of the lens from an eye, were conducted 4.7 million times in 2017 across the EU Member States, a recent Eurostat survey shows. . In 13 of the Member States, cataract surgeries were performed 1 000 times or more per 100 000 inhabitants in 2017, peaking at 1 400 times per 100 000 inhabitants in Portugal (2015 data), followed by 1 300 each in Austria, France, Czechia and ...