Last year, Ghana saw its first ever sets of successful corneal transplants in two major facilities, which saved the sights of at least 14 citizens, on the verge of blindness, marking a significant milestone in the optometry and ophthalmology fields of the health sector. The surgeries, performed free of charge,…
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A planned set of corneal transplants scheduled for early this year has been thwarted by severe weather conditions, which affected eye banks in the United States of America. The Himalayan Cataract Project (Cure Blindness), a US-based organisation working to end blindness, had scheduled some 20 eye patients in Ghana for…
The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH), in collaboration with the Himalayan Cataract Project (Cure blindness), a US-based foundation working to end blindness, has successfully performed free cataract surgeries on more than 1,250 people to save them from total blindness. The five-day health exercise is the largest single cataract intervention in…
The Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTH) has successfully performed its first set of cornea transplants to restore the sights of some eight patients on the verge of blindness. The surgeries were conducted in two days at no cost to the patients under a partnership between the hospital and Himalayan Cataract…