Santase Community Free Eyecare #Refraction

Life is an ordered system, you can’t cheat nature.

Correcting refractive errors entails a lot, things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream. Sometimes an assumed simple refractive correction requires more power to reach the point of neutrality. When we say refractive errors we simply talking about the situation where one has difficulties seeing at far or near generally, although not all instances of one not being a ble to see at far or near can be attributed to refractive errors most of them end up being refractive errors. So the Question most parents ask when they bring their wards for checkup is; what next?, How bad will it affect him or her if something is not done about it?

So let’s look at how it can affect the life of a child to have refractive errors uncorrected. Vision is relative according to the person seeing, thus since the child does not know how others are seeing sin e birth they end up assuming that everyone sees the way they are seeing, thus their they adjust to the poor vision, if this persist the brain also accustoms itself to this resulting in a classical case of amblyopia where trying to correct the error yields no results be because the visual cortex is feeling lazy to adjust itself to the new stimuli of sharper images. Uncorrected refractive errors also have lots of adverse effects on a child’s education, in a lot of ways. We would take a deeper look at the adverse effects on the child’s education in our subsequent posts.

Barriers of sight can only be broken through perseverance

What is @bettervision about?

@bettervision is is a project initiated by @nattybongo and friends to give back to the society the knowledge and skill acquired through the Optometric Studies in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.It is an outreach system where we visit the less privileged communities to offer free eye screening services and education to the people within the community

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To reduce or prevent vision loss through diseases such as glaucoma, cataract and refractive errors.

To enlighten the majority of the Ghanaian population about the importance of proper visual care.

To conscientize people on the need for regular eye checks

To get more people to have their wards screened within the Critical periods of a Child’s Vision Development; thus from ages 3 to till about 10 years.

To help the blind and people with low vision live a better life within the society through education of the general public to stop stigmatization.

Our greatest gratitude goes to @fundition @adollaraday @surfyogi @girlsfoundation @bleepcoin @ackza and @wafrica for helping to make the aims and objectives of @bettervision a reality.

This is me @nattybongo reporting for @bettervision. Thanks for your time