Ghana Eye Foundation

Search :

News and Events


18/03/2009
FACTS ABOUT TRACHOMA
FACTS ABOUT TRACHOMA Trachoma is an infectious disease of the eye. It is the leading cause of preventable blindness. It is transmitted from person to person through flies, fomites (like bed linen, handkerchiefs, towels, clothes) and fingers. It is a disease of poverty. in such communities potable water is inadequate or hard to come by, there is poor sanitation andsub-standard personal hygiene; health facilities are difficult to reach. ...more

12/03/2009
WORLD GLAUCOMA DAY
SECOND WORLD GLAUCOMA DAY CELEBRATION DATE: 12th March 2009

12/03/2009
WORLD SIGHT DAY
2009 WORLD SIGHT DAY Date: 8th October 2009 Theme: GENDER AND EYE HEALTH

09/12/2008
OUR LADY OF GRACE HOSPITAL, BREMAN ASIKUMA
EYE CARE SERVICE in a Rural Hospital Our Lady of Grace Hospital is based in a rural setting. The Hospital is a general established in 1953 and is owned by the Catholic Archdioscese of Cape Coast. The Hospital serves as the District Hospital for the Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District of the Central Region. The Eye Clinic was established in March 1998 with Dr. Thomas Tontie Baah as the ophthalmologist. The Eye Unit provides both base-hospital and outreach eye care services ...more

09/12/2008
School Health Club
In Mother Mary of Good Counsel School, the children are aged between five and six years. These young children are very enthusiastic about the health club. Club activities starts at 1:30 pm and ends at 3:30 pm. The 'Healthy Eyes Activiity Book is what the kids are using to learn about eye health promotion. Other health promotion activities on oral health, hearing, nutrition and malaria will be introduced during the next school term.

Vision of the Foundation

A Ghana Free of Avoidable Blindness

Mission of the Foundation

To create awareness and mobilise resources to support the provision of a sustainable, equitable and quality eye health service by well-trained and appropriately motivated personnel to all residents in Ghana.

The Brand name for the Foundation is “SIGHT FOR GHANA”

Strategies

The Foundation will undertake the following strategies

Increase advocacy for eye health

Awareness creation

Mobilisation of resources

Support service provision and Operational Research

Monitoring and evaluation on eye health and prevention of blindness

Reaching people in need of eye care

There are five Mission Hospitals with Resident ophthalmologists and a couple of Private Eye Clinics. Fifty percent of the current national CSR is provided by the ophthalmologists in Mission health facilities and those in private practice. The initiative adopted by OSG is to encourage ophthalmologists in public practice to improve on their performance and thus increase the cataract surgical coverage.

This report features Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), where the Head of the Eye Unit and his Team have taken on board “Adopt a District Initiative” and are providing regular outreach cataract surgical service.

Dr. Seth Lartey, Head of the Eye Unit of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, and his Team have adopted three Ejura Sekyere-dumasi, Amansie East and Amansie West Districts in the Ashanti Region to provide cataract surgical services in order to bring relief and restore sight to people who need the service closer to them at the district level.