{"id":1241153,"date":"2022-11-01T20:26:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/500-residents-of-suame-magazine-access-free-eye-screening-by-accra-lions-golden-club\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T20:26:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T20:26:51","slug":"500-residents-of-suame-magazine-access-free-eye-screening-by-accra-lions-golden-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/500-residents-of-suame-magazine-access-free-eye-screening-by-accra-lions-golden-club\/","title":{"rendered":"500 residents of Suame magazine access free eye screening by Accra Lions Golden Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed an estimated 2.2 billion people around the globe suffer from some form of visual impairment or blindness.<\/p>\n

As part of this year\u2019s World Sight Day,\u00a0Accra Lions Golden Club\u00a0screened about 500 residents at Suame Magazine in the Ashanti Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to Lion Nehemiah Senyo Attigah, the screening is to help\u00a0residents maintain optimal eye health.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome people in deprived communities do not really go for eye screening to know their vision status and that was why we organised this mini clinic. As Lion\u2019s, our primary objective is to serve communities and our primary global course is actually sight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Majority of the people screened reported cases of ocular allergies which is an itchy eye condition that makes affected persons rub their eyes excessively.<\/p>\n

Affected persons received on-site spectacle tests and eye glasses to aid their vision.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re giving them free medication that will be best for their eyes. We consistently do the screening in every region, we don\u2019t\u00a0wait to organise the screening yearly,\u201d Lion Deloris Enyo Awalime, a member of the team, noted.<\/p>\n

Diabetes and blood pressure patients also benefited\u00a0from the mini clinic by Accra Lions Golden Club.<\/p>\n

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Vision Spring, Ernest Chemist, Remy Pharmacy, Suame Municipal Assembly and the Ghana National Association of Garages supported this year\u2019s mini clinic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed an estimated 2.2 billion people around the globe suffer from some form of visual impairment or blindness. As part of this year\u2019s World Sight Day,\u00a0Accra Lions Golden Club\u00a0screened about 500 residents at Suame Magazine in the Ashanti Region.\u00a0 According to Lion Nehemiah Senyo Attigah, the screening is to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1690,813,1665,1734,2756,3994,4295,20474,406,407,5319],"class_list":["post-1241153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-access","tag-accra","tag-club","tag-eye","tag-free","tag-golden","tag-lions","tag-magazine","tag-residents","tag-screening","tag-suame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}