Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital has taken delivery of eye equipment costing about US$60,000.<\/p>\n
These included cataract surgery set, slit lamp and motorized table, applanation tonometer, keratometer, power table, lensometer, aspheric indirect bio-lens, double aspheric indirect lens and cylinder trial lens set.<\/p>\n
They were a gift from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.<\/p>\n
On hand, to present the equipment at a ceremony at Mampong-Akuapem, was a delegation from the Church\u2019s Headquarters in the Salt Lake City, United States (US) led by Mr. Jesse Hunsaker.<\/p>\n
He said it was its contribution towards the effort at improving the quality of eye care \u2013 efficient treatment of eye cases at the facility.<\/p>\n
The team had already spent some days to train the health professionals at the Eye Unit of the hospital to properly handle the equipment.<\/p>\n
Dr. James Addy, Director in-charge of Eye Care, Ghana Health Service, said the gift was a welcomed relief and could not have come at a better time.<\/p>\n
It would help to deal with the high number of cataract cases.<\/p>\n
The nation\u2019s health facilities should be performing a total of about 54,000 cataract surgeries a year but have been doing between 20,000 and 25,000 surgeries.<\/p>\n
He said it was against this background that the gesture by the Church should be seen as both refreshing and significant.<\/p>\n
He thanked the Church for the assistance and said it would go a long way to bring treatment to eye patients in the Eastern and parts of the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n
Dr. Georgette Osei Kontoh, Specialist Ophthalmologist at the Hospital, said the facility had been seeing about 35 and 40 eye cases every day.<\/p>\n
She indicated that the supply of the equipment would drastically reduce referral of cases to the teaching and other facilities.<\/p>\n
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Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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