THE Volta Chapter of “Unite for Sight”, a US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO), has organised a two-day eye screening exercise dubbed: “Catch Gbi za with Eye Screening” at Peki Avetile, in the South Dayi District of the Volta Region.
The ceremony formed part of this year’s annual Gbi Dukorza festival celebration.
A total of 484 patients were screened, and those found to have cataract and pterygium were referred to the Crystal Eye Clinic at Adenta in Accra, where they were operated upon free of charge by the leader of the team, Dr James Clark.
The Volta Regional Co-ordinator of the NGO, Rev. Benjamin Bankas, told the Daily Graphic that the medical team spent about two weeks at Jasikan and Peki in the Volta Region on a similar exercise.
He said at Peki, the team found out that 45 per cent of the people screened had cataract, while the percentage of those with refractive errors was 40, with reading difficulty cases making up the remaining 15 per cent.
According to Mr Bankas, Glaucoma was detected as the major problem in the northern sector of the Jasikan District, forming about 60 per cent of all cases screened, whilst cataract came second with 35 per cent with refractive error cases being five per cent.
Rev. Bankas appealed for assistance from well-to-do individuals and benevolent organisations to enable the NGO to reach out to the hinterlands, where its services were needed most.
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