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[121] CLIMATE AND HEALTH – A WIN-WIN SITUATION

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The Carbon Footprint of Cataract Surgery

There is a very good study between the cab and footprint of doing a cataract operation in the u k. In india, it's one twentieth of that though. And when you look at the outcome data in terms of success rate and infection rates, it's lower in india than it is in the uk. So we have more carbon emissions, more greenhouse gas emissions, more plastic waste and more single use waste, and worse outcome for pay agagon this. This isn't something of you allowing we should. You really do thinktat we could do far, far, far better than we are at the moment. A lon danasthetic gases. There's some

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