normal news of Thursday, 28 March 2019
supply: ghananewsagency.org
2019-03-28
The health facility begun operating in July 2018
Cape Coast, March 27, GNA - Professor Johnson Nyarko Boampong, the Provost of the college of fitness and Allied Sciences (CoHAS), university of Cape Coast (UCC), has entreated the public, exceptionally people with eye complications, to adhere to scheduled investigate-up plans to save their points of interest.
He mentioned average examine-united states of americawere critical in preventing the lack of sight as donning spectacles become not an conclusion in itself.
Prof Boampong become speaking at the inauguration of the UCC Eye health facility.
The Optometry branch, below the CoHAS, collaborated with the Directorate of tuition fitness capabilities to establish the ability.
Prof Boampong published that one out of every four americans of the country's 30 million population suffers vision impairment with cataract and glaucoma being the major explanations of blindness.
It changed into unhappy that ignorance most commonly contributed to the ser iousness of the circumstance, which led to many people their sight, he observed.
Prof Boampong, however, expressed the hope that with an intricate outreach programme being undertaken at the regional and district ranges many eye situations can be recognized and treated.
"individuals always say eye problems will now not kill you, however I tell you that it's going to deprive you of many things in existence," he talked about.
He appealed to the general public to consult with the eye clinic consistently and entreated the administration of the clinic to carry out upkeep actions on all of the gadget to hold them.
Prof Joseph Ghartey Ampiah, the Vice Chancellor of UCC, pointed out the sanatorium become established by using the school as its contribution to cutting back blindness and visual impairment in Ghana.
He stated it turned into based on the institution's imaginative and prescient to strongly place itself for resourceful teaching, analysis, outreach an d expert development.
Prof Ghartey Ampiah expressed the hope that with the inauguration of the ability best eye care features for the tuition public and past would enrich.
He appealed to the government to equip the hospital with greater infrastructure to be certain better approaches and evaluation techniques for productive start.
He expressed appreciation to the Prudential bank for supporting the medical institution.
The hospital, which began operating in July 2018, had attended to greater than 2,000 patients apart featuring outreach eye care services to inmates of the Ankaful maximum safety jail and individuals of Mankessim.
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