KATH embarks on an eight-day eye screening exercise

Kumasi (Ash), March 29, GNA - The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi is to embark on an eight-day eye screening exercise from March 26 to April 4.

Those with complicated eye problems would later be operated upon and the surgeries would cover cornea, cataract, squint and other major eye problems and would take place from April 2 to April 6. Dr. Seth Lartey, the consultant of Ophthalmic Surgeon in-charge of the eye department of KATH made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Thursday.

He said the surgeries would be performed by eight-member eye specialists from the Moran Eye Centre in the United States of America and their colleagues at KATH.

The surgeries would be subsidized and those with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards and the health facility attendance cards would pay nothing whilst those without such facilities would pay 300,000 cedis.

The exercise would be sponsored by the surgical services and training projects of KATH and the University of Utah. 29 March 07