THE Ghana Red Cross Society has presented medicated eye glasses to 37 students of the Tamale Girls High School who have been identified to have various sight defects, to aid them in their studies.
According to the acting Northern Regional Secretary of the society, Mr Solomon Gariyoni, the beneficiaries were identified after a screening exercise at the Eye Clinic of the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
He said the presentation formed part of the Action Against Childhood Blindness (AACHIB) initiative under the first vision programme of the society, which began in 2005.
The programme targeted children, particularly pupils and students. Apart from provision of spectacles, the beneficiaries underwent eye operations in order to correct various eye defects. It was being implemented in the Northern, Upper East and West regions.
The beneficiary districts in the Northern Region are Nanumba, Bole, West Gonja, the Yendi Municipality and the Tamale metropolis. The programme is being sponsored by the Swiss Red Cross, in collaboration with the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Red Cross Society.
The secretary announced the formation of school youth link clubs, a health outreach initiative, and urged pupils and students to embrace such clubs in their respective schools when established, to equip themselves with first aid and health education tit-bits.
“You also need to take good care of your eyes as well as protect the spectacles offered you to justify the huge expenditure expended on its acquisition,” he admonished.
An Assistant Headmistress of the Tamale Girls High School, Madam Rubabatu Yakubu, expressed appreciation of the school to their benefactors for their support, which she indicated would help the beneficiaries in their respective studies.
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