{"id":972665,"date":"2022-02-01T20:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/stop-buying-spectacles-from-the-wayside-optometrist\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:52:27","slug":"stop-buying-spectacles-from-the-wayside-optometrist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/01\/stop-buying-spectacles-from-the-wayside-optometrist\/","title":{"rendered":"Forestall purchasing spectacles from the wayside \u2013 Optometrist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Well being Information of Tuesday,  1 February 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Supply: <\/strong>GNA<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/633\/63305189.295.jpg\" alt=\"Optometrist urges Ghanaians to practice proper eye care\" title=\"Optometrist urges Ghanaians to practice proper eye care\" width=\"295\" height=\"194\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Optometrist urges Ghanaians to apply right kind eye care<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Dr. Kwame Oben-Nyarko, an Optometrist, has warned the general public to chorus from obtaining spectacles from the wayside and boulevard distributors, pronouncing doing that may be unhealthy to their eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He stated, \u201cspectacles (glasses) are visible aids most often used to give a boost to the standard of imaginative and prescient and give protection to the eyes from publicity to direct touch to a number of environmental components which might be adverse to the eyes of the person\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are able to even be used for the correction of a number of prerequisites together with doubling of imaginative and prescient and latent and manifest deviations of the eyes, due to this fact, obtaining it from the wayside may somewhat endanger your eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He gave the caution at a joint programme arranged through the Ghana Optometric Affiliation and the Ghana Information Company\u2019s (GNA) Tema Regional Workplace to coach folks on eye well being.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Oben-Nyarko, who&#8217;s the Leader Government Officer of 3rd Eye Care and Imaginative and prescient Middle, prompt the folk to procure spectacles from eye clinics and optical stores.<\/p>\n<p>They should first, undergo eye checks carried out through an optometrist. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA right kind eye exam won&#8217;t most effective give the spectacle prescription however too can disclose different prerequisites that may be provide however appearing no signs like glaucoma, high blood pressure, and diabetes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kingsley Hedornu, an Optometrist on the Tema Christian Eye Middle, stated folks must no longer wait till there was once an issue, stating that, \u201cright kind eye care calls for that at least one time a yr, you take a look at your eyes to make sure that it&#8217;s secure all the time\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well being Information of Tuesday, 1 February 2022 Supply: GNA Optometrist urges Ghanaians to apply right kind eye care Dr. Kwame Oben-Nyarko, an Optometrist, has warned the general public to chorus from obtaining spectacles from the wayside and boulevard distributors, pronouncing doing that may be unhealthy to their eyes. He stated, \u201cspectacles (glasses) are visible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3920,3921,3922,534,3923],"class_list":["post-972665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-health","tag-buying","tag-optometrist","tag-spectacles","tag-stop","tag-wayside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972665","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=972665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}