By P. K. Yankey, GNA
Ampain (W/R), Oct. 30, GNA – Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ellembelle, has organised a free eye screening exercise across the Ellembelle District to help eliminate cataract disease among the people.
The three-week health outreach programme, aimed at treatment of cataract disease, is expected to cover every town at Ellembelle and other districts in the Nzema enclave.
It is solely sponsored by Mr Buah who doubles as the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources at a cost of GHC2,500 per patient, and formed part of his vision to ensure that everyone in Ellembelle had clear vision.
As part of the comprehensive health care programme, chiropractor doctors had been in the district within the last month to offer treatment to prospective patients.
Mr Sylvester Quarm, the Administrator at the AYA Community Centre, told Ghana News Agency in an interview at Ampain on day one of the exercise that cataract could lead to blindness.
The MP had, therefore, engaged the services of experienced surgeons and ophthalmologists from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, and the Presbyterian Hospital at Agogo, to diagnose cataract diseases and restore the sight of eye patients in the Nzema area, especially the aged to improve upon their health and wellbeing, he said.
Mr Quarm said: “Since the AYA Elderly Care Centre was established a decade ago, it has served as a focal health point for the elderly and sick and has improved the health care needs of people in Ellembelle and the Nzema area.”
The Centre had made provision of free buses to convey patients diagnosed in their various towns with cataract to the St. Martin De Porres Hospital at Eikwe for surgery.
Mr Quarm noted that the next screening exercise would be devoted to the treatment of hernia and prostrate and advised the people in the Nzema area to take advantage of the free eye screening exercise to improve upon their vision and well-being.
GNA
Edited by Justina Paaga/Christabel Addo