There is also a glaring shortage of specialists across the region which has exacerbated the problem.
However there is hope on the horizon with a number of countries recently getting their first Ophthamalogists or eye doctors and reinforcements imminent.
Eye health has a long history of being an issue with cataracts common and responsible for 80 percent of avoidable blindness in the Pacific.
But the field is under more pressure now with the emergence of diabetes eye disease off the back of a non-communicable disease crisis.
