Keratotis patients up 6.8% annually

Keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea, has increased by a yearly average of 6.8 percent points over the past six years, according to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC).

Its report showed that the number of patients went up to 1.37 million last year, from 988,000 in 2006.

“The most common causes of keratitis are infection and injury. Infectious keratitis usually begins by ...