About the Authors

Debananda Padhy

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre, Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Giridhar Pyda

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre, Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India

Srinivas Marmamula

Roles Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre, Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Rohit C. Khanna

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rohit@lvpei.org

Affiliations Allen Foster Community Eye Health Research Centre, Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India, Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States of America, School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.