Lagos State Government has inaugurated its Secondary School Eye Health Programme in continuation of its effort to reduce visual impairment and eye conditions that could cause blindness amongst students, particularly pupils of Secondary Schools across the state.
Speaking at the inauguration of the programme at Oregun Junior High School, Ikeja, the state’s Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, noted that the secondary school eye health programme is one of the strategies of the government to reduce the burden of childhood blindness across the state. Others are installation of vision screening boards in all the secondary schools; Equipping of all secondary schools with vision screening kits, and management and referral of students with eye conditions by the Blindness Preventive Team.
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