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ACALLFOR QUALITYEYE CAREAND GLOBALACTION W hile it is quite important for qualified eye care professionals to treat children and suggest corrective measures for the eyes, it is equally pertinent to note that companies have a big responsibility on their shoulders in offering products substantiated with clinical evidence. Especially if the spectacles need to be prescribed for children. While the rule of the land must be abided by and enforced as per the regulatory frameworks, it is also a question of ethics for a dispenser to be fully convinced that the products procured by them are substantiated with scientific claims and hence the responsibility of all in the supply chain is to furnish to the practitioners all relevant data and evidence. To address this, one possible solution could be introducing Unique Device Identification (UDC) approved by the relevant government authorities specifically for products that are prescribed for children for therapeutic purposes/myopia control, etc, even though spectacles do not fall under Medical Devices in India. The UDC shall include Indexes, Options, Design and Lens Material. The commercial index shall include the lens refractive index describing the specs of the lens and available options of lens such as photochromic, etc. The design aspects of the lens such as single vision and whether the lens comprises either mineral or organic material shall be considered. It shall include the commercial name of the spectacle lenses in addition to the components covered shall include the product information. Perhaps this could be a good starting point and would give further confidence to the eye care practitioners. Coming now to the larger cause of uncorrected refractive error space, it is a primary objective to give access to a pair of spectacles to all segments of the Mr Ramachandran Parthasarathy’s personal view on eye care, quality glasses and WHO's global plan RETAIL TALES MR. RAMACHANDRAN PARTHASARATHY EYEWEAR BUSINESS STRATEGY EXPERT SOUTH ASIA HONORARY ADVISOR – INDIA VISION INSTITUTE 44 VISION PLUS INDIA EDITION