Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

World

Cataracts account for more than half of blindness in Ghana — GHS

MORE than half of blindness cases recorded in Ghana are caused by cataracts, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) has disclosed. Head of the Eye Care Unit at the GHS, Dr Hornametor Afake, said cataracts account for an estimated 140,000, representing 54.8 per cent of the nearly 254,000 Ghanaians who are completely blind in the country. … The post Cataracts account for more than half of blindness in…

Cataracts account for more than half of blindness in Ghana — GHS

We haven't written up this one. Ghanaian Times has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

Read the original at ghanaiantimes.com.gh →

More in World

More from Thursday 15 October →