KATH embarks on an eight-day eye screening exercise

Kumasi (Ash), March 29, GNA - The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
(KATH) in Kumasi is to embark on an eight-day eye screening exercise
from March 26 to April 4.
Those with complicated eye problems would later be operated upon and
the surgeries would cover cornea, cataract, squint and other major eye
problems and would take place from April 2 to April 6.
Dr. Seth Lartey, the consultant of Ophthalmic Surgeon in-charge of
the eye department of KATH made this known in an interview with the
Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Thursday.
He said the surgeries would be performed by eight-member eye
specialists from the Moran Eye Centre in the United States of America
and their colleagues at KATH.
The surgeries would be subsidized and those with the National Health
Insurance Scheme (NHIS) cards and the health facility attendance cards
would pay nothing whilst those without such facilities would pay
300,000 cedis.
The exercise would be sponsored by the surgical services and training
projects of KATH and the University of Utah.
29 March 07