Through ophthalmological exams, structured interviews and participant observation, this study examines the experience of blindness in rural Egypt, and finds that villagers' subjective assessments of their vision differ substantially from ophthalmic measurements of their vision. Individuals with profound visual loss remain independent in their daily activities and contribute to their families' subsistence. While they may agree that they have "weak eyesight," they do not perceive themselves to be disabled. Stigmatizing attitudes that the blind are completely dependent and unable to fulfill their social roles further encourage those with decreased vision to deny the extent of their visual loss.

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Superficial incisional surgical site infection (SSI) is a common postoperative complication in surgical patients. The aim of this study was to assess the predictive power of an assessment scale for identifying patients at risk of superficial incisional SSI. A cross-sectional survey was conducted at the Department of Surgery at the Medical Research Institute Hospital, Alexandria University. A sample of 150 adult patients aged from 18 to 65 years, who undergoing general surgeries that had clean sutured surgical wounds, was randomly selected. Forty-six patients (30.7%) had SSI. The total score can significantly discriminate between positive and negative superficial incisional SSI patients with diagnostic accuracy of AUC (SE) = 0.66 (0.048). Each score more than the cutoff point (11.5) will increase the risk of surgical site infection development by 2.5 times (OR (95% CI) = 2.5 (1.26-3.1)). The developed assessment scale can discriminate between patients who are at risk of superficial incisional SSI and those who are not. It can be used as a preliminary screening tool for subsequent investigation for the presence of infection.

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