Dry eye sufferers are petitioning Federal Minister for Health the Hon Sussan Ley MP for urgent research and funding for severe dry eye disease and corneal neuralgia.
A petition online at change.org details the impact of severe dry eye and corneal neuralgia and states that “patients are in desperate need of better treatment, accurate testing, better clinical studies and more comprehensive protocols than what is currently being offered”.
Click here to view the petition
The petition will be delivered to key influencers around the world including The Hon Sussan Ley; Dr. Bradley Horsburgh President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists; Sylvia Mathews Burwell Secretary of the United States Department of Health & Human Services; David W. Parke Chief Executive Officer of the American Academy of Ophthalmology; Melinda Gates at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO at Facebook.
