World Optometry Day #March 23

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Optometry is primary care profession that is autonomous, regulated and educated and optometrist are primary eye care professional who serve the visual need of the community from refraction, therapy, pathology management, drug dispening, low vision management, binocular vision assessment just to mention a few. The profession develop basically from the focus on correction of refractive errors that are present in the eyes of certain individuals and has evolved to the point of even surgical practice. Optometrist are also known as Doctors of Optometry and have a certificate of OD after six years of schooling. The scope of practice differ from geographical locations due to the fact that it is regulated. In the eye care industry the Optometrist work first hand with all the other profession, the ophthalmic nurse, ophthalmologist and the optician.

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World Optometry Day is celebrated on the 23 of March every year, followed immediately by optometry week celebration. It is a time to during which awareness of the Optometric Profession is created. People get to learn more about the profession and what Optometrist does during this period and the advantage is taken to advice people to seek regular eye care. Also during this time, Optometrist use the opportunity to organize free screening exercises for their communities and thus help reduce the prevalence of some blinding conditions such as Glaucoma, Cataract, Age Related Macular Degeneration and the likes.

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In the developing countries such as Ghana the number of Optometrist available to serve the community is nowhere near enough to provide for the visual need of the people, more hands are need on job. Optometrist faces lots of challenges day in day out as they over work themselves to ensure that they are giving the best of vision to their patients, thus during this time their hard work is recognize and they feel appreciated for what they do. As today is World Optometry Day @bettervision would actively be participating by embarking on some outreach programs and also educating others, we are also giving steemians the chance to ask anything they would like to know about the profession and we would gladly answer them. Join in the Celebration, Spread the Good News about Optometrist, Get Your eyes Checked today.

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