Nkwanta, May 30, GNA - A 10-member team of Optometrists from the United Kingdom have screened about 3,500 people in the Nkwanta District of the Volta Region.

Vision Aids Overseas (VAO) sponsored the exercise, which lasted two weeks and took the team to Kpassa and Brewaniase as well as Nkwanta. Beneficiaries were from the district, parts of the Northern Region and Togo.

Mr Nicholas Ahadzi, Nkwanta Area Development Programme Manager of World Vision International (WVI) that hosted the Optometrists said the exercise was targeted at the poor and marginalized. He appealed to the team to organize such screening programmes in the district annually.

The team gave out about 3,000 medicated lenses and sunglasses and performed cataract surgeries on 51 out of 100 identified patients. Mr Joseph Denteh, Nkwanta District Chief Executive expressing appreciation to the team, announced that the assembly would finance 40 per cent of the cost of the 100 cataract patients.