Deputy Commissioner Prashant Singh
Recently, Ayodhya Deputy Commissioner (GST) Prashant Kumar Singh had resigned in support of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. After resigning, now his elder brother has made many serious allegations against him. Prashant’s elder brother Dr. Vishwajit Singh alleges that his brother had made a fake certificate of disability to get a government job. Dr. Vishwajit says that the disease that his brother has mentioned in his certificate does not occur to anyone in the world before the age of 50.
According to Dr. Vishwajeet, Prashant Singh Has mentioned macular degeneration disease in his disability certificate. This is an eye disease. In which the ability to see things reduces. But Vishwajeet says that his brother does not have any such disease because it occurs only after the age of 50 years.
After this allegation of Dr. Vishwajit, we have tried to know the truth about macular degeneration disease. Does this disease really occur after the age of 50? Experts have told about this.
What is macular degeneration?
Dr. AK Grover, Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at Sir Gangaram Hospital, Delhi. It is said that Macular Degeneration is an eye disease, in which the macula present in the back part of the eye gradually starts deteriorating. If this macula gets damaged due to this disease, then due to this the person starts seeing blurred vision right in front of him or does not see it at all.
This disease can occur in one eye or both eyes, but its severity can be of different levels in both the eyes. A person who has macular degeneration never becomes completely blind; his ability to see objects at the edges remains fine. If there is a history of this disease in the family, it can also be passed from one generation to another.
Do people below 50 years of age not get this disease?
Prashant Singh’s brother alleges that this disease does not occur below the age of 50 years. In response to this question, Dr. Grover explains that there are many types of this eye disease. One of these is age-related macular degeneration, which occurs in most people only after the age of 50. But medical science does not say that no person in the world can get this disease before the age of 50. Macula related diseases can occur even under the age of 50 years.
Dr. Grover says that eye disease can be assessed only on the basis of medical reports, scans and retina tests, not on age. If there is any problem in the retina at a young age, then this disease can occur even before the age of 50. In many cases this disease can also be genetic. In such a situation, there is no direct relation with age.