Till before 1938, problems and shortcomings for blind individuals in Iran were abundant. The lack of a hygiene policy and medical assistance for the blind inflicted irreparable damage to their cause. After this period, with the gradual return of the Iranian medical students graduated from European academic institutions, they faced a huge number of eye patients with infectious diseases.
This paper will focus on a brief review of the history of diagnosis and eradication of infectious eye disease such as Trachoma in Iran. The paper will also pay attention to the process of establishment of the Committee for Eye Protection and also the method of building and equipping the fist special school for the blind in Iran.
The above school was a joint production of the Iranian Committee for Eye Protection, the American Lions Club number 354, and the Iranian local charity assistance. The school, which began its function in early 1960s, has attracted a remarkable number of blind students across many cities in Iran during its half century of activity.
In this compound school serving both the blind and semi-blind students, many patients get vocational and conventional education from various school to university undergraduate levels and get prepared to join professional life in the society.
The time period for these educations is from 1938 to 1979. The methodology for this study is oral history using tape records of about seventy hours of memoirs of the founder, personnel, and graduate students from the early two decades of the work of the school and also library archives.
