Santase Community Outreach #Drug and Spectacle Dispensing

Learning is a continuous process

There are lots of things one need to know before taking any medication and in our part of the world, people hardly care about these things not realizing how dangerous it is to be cultivating that habit. Lots of drugs react with other drugs in many different ways, even foods we take in which is why we advise not to eat certain foods when you are taking certain drugs. Take for instance when you been given antibiotics we recommend keeping away from milk and other such products because they attach to the drug and reduce the efficacy.

So what is the point am trying to make? Unless drugs have been prescribed by your health personnel, more specifically your doctor, it not advisable to be taking over the counter drugs since some of these reactions are deadly enough to kill you or result in organ damage. Grape fruit juice blocks and enzyme CYP3A4, this will cause terfenadine to be transform to fexofenadine which is toxic to the system and can cause death if it persists. Stay safe, take drugs from the right places and the right people.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

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