Low vision students sent to the blind school

Koforidua, Sept. 20, GNA - Five students with minor vision defects who were taken to the Akropong School for the Blind had been assisted by the Low Vision Centre of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua with eyeglasses to attend normal schools.

The optometrist in-charge of the Low Vision Centre of the Eastern Regional Hospital, Mr Edmund Korda, told newsmen on Wednesday that the centre had treated 100 patients with low vision problems this year but only 40 of them had been able to acquire the requisite vision aids. He said the Low Vision Centre is equipped to diagnose people with low vision problems and to offer them vision aids to enhance their vision to enable them lead normal life.

Mr Korda said the vision aids for patients with low vision included magnifier, telescope and close circuit television aid. He said young people with problems of low vision acquire the disease at birth or inherit it from their parents but often it was the elderly who mostly suffer from the disease "because as one ages the sight also falls." 20 Sept 07