In Lagos
State Nigeria, you hardly go through a street without seeing at least three eye
care centres but the same cannot be said of a whole country, Ghana looking at
the shocking revelation by the country’s Minister of Health, Sherry Ayittey,
that the country only has 74 Ophthalmologists.
According to
her, "There are about 74 ophthalmologists currently in the country
attending to over 24 million people."
In her estimation,
about 50 percent of these ophthalmologists in the country were practising in
Accra.‘The Health Minister disclosed this on Tuesday
when she was inaugurating an ultra-modern eye centre at the Komfo Anokye
Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.
According to
Ayittey, the three Northern Regions in the country could not even boast of
three ophthalmologists, pointing out that the situation was frightening for the
country, which needed to be addressed as soon as possible.
This
statistics is really poor for a country.
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