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Patience Ahumuza, a digital communications consultant cannot live without her eyeglasses which she has been wearing since 2010, because of the effect of the blue light from screens.
Even while in school, Patience, who is short-sighted, recalls “I could barely see what the teacher was writing and an optician recommended eyeglasses.”
Patience would get frequent headaches and thought the glasses were too strong for her, but even changing them did not solve anything, and spending over 14 hours in front of a computer did not help matters as the blue light affected her eyesight further.
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