{"id":749507,"date":"2022-01-14T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/520-medical-lenses-distributed-to-persons-with-sight-problems-in-dormaa-west\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T12:31:12","slug":"520-medical-lenses-distributed-to-persons-with-sight-problems-in-dormaa-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/14\/520-medical-lenses-distributed-to-persons-with-sight-problems-in-dormaa-west\/","title":{"rendered":"520 medical lenses distributed to persons with sight problems in Dormaa West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Health News of Friday, 14 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>ghanaiantimes.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/81710715.295.jpg\" alt=\"Some residents awaiting their turn to have their eyes screened\" title=\"Some residents awaiting their turn to have their eyes screened\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Some residents awaiting their turn to have their eyes screened<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Five hundred and twenty medical lenses and spectacles were given free-of-charge to persons who had sight problems at a screening that took place between December 23-24, 2021 in the Dormaa West Constituency.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 70 of the beneficiaries diagnosed with different medical conditions would undergo surgery to be paid by Mr Vincent Oppong, the Member of Parliament for the constituency.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1,200 residents went through the two-day health screening and treatment organized by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP.<\/p>\n<p>The services included testing blood sugar levels, eye screening, ear and dental services.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Oppong told the beneficiaries that the health of his constituents mattered to him and that he would carry out similar exercises from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>He said his Health Fund paid GH45,000 for the health screening exercise and thanked the people for turning up in their numbers.<\/p>\n<p>For their part, the constituents commended the Dormaa West MP for attending to their health needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health News of Friday, 14 January 2022 Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh 2022-01-14 Some residents awaiting their turn to have their eyes screened Five hundred and twenty medical lenses and spectacles were given free-of-charge to persons who had sight problems at a screening that took place between December 23-24, 2021 in the Dormaa West Constituency. In addition, 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1678,1679,1680,404,1660,1261,1681,916],"class_list":["post-749507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-distributed","tag-dormaa","tag-lenses","tag-medical","tag-persons","tag-problems","tag-sight","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749507","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=749507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}