A Ghana Free of Avoidable Blindness

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

 

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.