News - October 2016

“Peek wins INDEX: Award 2015 partly because the portable, user-friendly, low-cost design solution is one significant step towards achieving the 66th World Health Assembly Action Plan, which aims to achieve a global reduction of avoidable visual impairments of 25 percent by 2019”, said the international INDEX: Award Jury.

Watch this video to learn the story of Mr Kadiri and Pravin.

Tests in patients’ homes found that Peek Acuity produced results to a clinical level equivalent to the much larger and more expensive standard electricity dependent chart – the average difference being the equivalent of less than one line on an eye chart.

The video includes a live demonstration of our adapter for looking at a patient’s retina with the help of a kind volunteer from the audience.