Local Health Committee sponsors eye-screening

Scores of residents of Have rpt Have, in the Afadjato-South District and surrounding areas, have under-gone eye screening at the local Health Centre for eye defects, and where necessary, provided with appropriate glasses.

The no-expenses-paid exercise, was under the aegis of the Health Committee of the Have rpt Have community and Meeting Bismarck B.V., a German Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).

Christian Optical Centre Foundation, based in Ho, technical partner, did the screening.

Paul Kpai, Assembly Member of the area, put the estimated cost of the materials, including 550 glasses, at 60,000 Ghana Cedis.

Mr. Kpai disclosed that Meeting Bismarck B.V, would from November this year, begin a programme to facelift the Health Centre, to befit its emerging status as a Polyclinic.

He said under the programme, offices for an emergency response unit and a quarters for the resident midwife with guest rooms, would be built, adding that an ambulance had already been provided for the Health Centre by the German NGO.

Mr. Kpai said the NGO had provided an Ultra Sound Scanning Machine for the Health Centre, and that a Senior Nurse was under-going training at the Volta Regional Hospital in Ho, to oversee its operations.

Three and half hours into the screening which started at 0900 hours, a total of 158 residents had completed the process with many more waiting and more arriving.

Mr. Rowland Kwaku Kludje, Chairman of the Health Committee, told the Ghana News Agency that the Clinic had a quite expanded client base, including the Kpeve, Nyamgbo, Vakpo and Goviefe communities.

The clinic has a staff population of 25, including four volunteers, with an average daily attendance of 65 patients.

Meeting Bismarck B.V. was founded by Mrs. Sonja Liggett Iglemond, to solicit humanitarian support for people in the area, where she had worked before as a volunteer.