World Sight Day: How it Went and What we are looking forward to

World Sight Day is a time for visual health promotion all around the globe, the same way we have Valentine’s Day, Easter and Christmas, we have World Sight Day, it is celebrated on the second Thursday of October every year and during this time all health workers and professionals do their best in promoting visual health in their respective communities irrespective of where you may find yourself.

Last Year, at such a time bettervision was privilege to have the opportunity to be part of such a wonderful ocular occasion and even more thrilling was the fact that members of the project together with so many other organisations had the chance to go on a mega outreach to so many locations to screen the eyes of individuals within each locality for free, provide free consultation, free glasses and education on lots of pathologies and diseases, both systemic and ocular related.

Some members of Hive account@bettervision was assigned to the Ayigya locality whereas some also went to Ayeduase all in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana, West Africa. It was a thrilling adventure and a wonderful experience giving back to the community, having the opportunity to practice your skill and making new friends with others from different organisations, instituitions and hospitals.

This year, we are looking forward to a more bigger and better outreach program, now that Hive account@bettervision is on the path to acquiring our own instruments with the help of Hive account@funditions and our fellow steemians, hopefully we will be able to cover more localities and look at more people than we were able to do before. The theme for this years’ World Sight Day Celebration is Eye Care Everywhere on this note we would like to encourage each and every steemian irrespective of your profession to help observe World Sight Day by being a patron of good eye health and telling a friend to go for eye check up every once in a while. We would also be enlightening you on some basic visual conditions so may get something to share with you loved ones on World Sight Day.

Have a lovely Day and we hope and believe steemit is here to make many great impact in the lives of many people here in Ghana and beyond with Hive account@bettervision.

What is Hive account@bettervission about?

Hive account@bettervission is is a project initiated by Hive account@nattybongo and friends to give back to the society the knowledge and skill acquired through the Optometric Studies in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.It is an outreach system where we visit the less privileged communities to offer free eye screening services and education to the people within the community

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To reduce or prevent vision loss through diseases such as glaucoma, cataract and refractive errors.

To enlighten the majority of the Ghanaian population about the importance of proper visual care.

To conscientize people on the need for regular eye checks

To get more people to have their wards screened within the Critical periods of a Child’s Vision Development; thus from ages 3 to till about 10 years.

To help the blind and people with low vision live a better life within the society through education of the general public to stop stigmatization.

This is me Hive account@nattybongo reporting for Hive account@bettervision. Thanks for your time