A health officer with the Ghana Health Service, Mabel Adadzewa Dontwi, has called on Ghanaians especially the aged to desist from applying medicines not prescribed by professional eye physicians onto their eyes but rather seek proper care from appropriate clinics.
According to her, eyes are human light and once they are lost, they could not be reinstated hence they should not be treated anyhow.
Miss Dontwi made this when addressing beneficiaries of a cash donation made by a non-profitable organization called Adwowa Gyaaba Foundation (AGF) at Anomabo Taido in the Mfantseman Municipality of the Central Region (CR) over the weekend.
She says many human activities put pressure on the eye and so when any unnatural sign or change was noticed in their sight, “you should not hesitate to visit the clinic for proper medical care.”
“Never put eye drops not prescribed by a physician onto your eyes for it may worsen your case and if care is not taken, make you go blind,” she advised.
She was however quick to add that they should not always wait till they see changes in their sight before they visit an eye clinic but at least twice a year even if they see clearly “so that if there’s any hidden eye disease such as glaucoma or cataract, they detect it earlier for swift treatment.”
The Adwowa Gyaaba Foundation, founded by a US-based Ghanaian, Francis Kofi Ogoe, aims at supporting the aged and the needy with foodstuffs, and financial and health needs.
According to its director of operations, Isaac Kweku Quainoo, the founder does that to honour his late mother who could not live to enjoy the fruit of her labour.
“So Mr Ogoe does this every quarter in a year to the aged and persons living with disabilities to honour the late mother, Mame Adwowa Gyaaba. We started this about three years ago and today’s is the second one in this year alone….next quarter too we will visit different communities and then the final one in the last quarter, somewhere in December.”
At Taido, about 50 aged were supported with an amount of GH¢100.00 each.
