Free eye screenings expected to help low-income students excel
“The Houston Health Department estimates up to 20,000 area students start school each year with unresolved eye or vision issues – a problem so pervasive that, in 2011, the agency and its nonprofit wing, the Houston Health Foundation, began offering free, full eye exams to 10 school districts. Most of the roughly 50,000 students who have since been treated through the temporary, makeshift See to Succeed clinics come from low-income schools and households, where access to proper health care is fleeting and parents can’t always take days off work for private eye doctor appointments, Health Department officials said.”