Bliss Eye Care, a private eye care clinic in the Upper West Region has presented eye glasses to school children in Tumu in the Sissala East Municipality to help address their visual problems.
The children, who were screened with various eye problems during this year’s edition of the Paarigbiele Festival, received the glasses to improve their vision and learn effectively in class.

Dr Zakarea Al-hassan Balure, an Optometrist and Manager of Bliss Eye Care said the free eye care services was under a project dubbed “Blissful Sight for Kids” (BS4K) being sponsored by Ghana Vision in Switzerland.
He advised parents to guard their children against sharing the glasses with other siblings, adding that even if any of the other siblings had eye problems, their condition may not be the same and therefore could not share one glass.

Dr Balure advised parents to research on why their children should use glasses so that they could guide them to use them appropriately to avoid early damages.
He noted that poor vision had a lot of negative impact on children’s academic performance and should be taken seriously if they wanted a better future for the children.

Kuoro Richard Babini Kanton VI, Paramount Chief of Tumu Traditional Area expressed gratitude to Bliss Eye Care and its partners for heeding to their call to undertake the exercise as an activity marking the celebration of their festival.

He said the glasses were expensive and most parents could not have afforded it if they were for sale, hence the need for parents to guide their children on the usage to last longer.