has launched the secondary school eye health programme to reduce visual impairment and blinding eye conditions among students.
Speaking at the launch, the state Commissioner for Health, Akin Abayomi, explained that the programme involves four main components which include; training of teachers on vision screening, installation of vision screening board, equipping of all secondary schools with vision screening kits and referrals of students with eye conditions by the blindness preventive team.
“If not corrected or if the correction is inadequate, the refractive error becomes a major cause of low vision and even blindness. Yet, the correction with appropriate spectacles is one of the most cost-effective interventions in eye health care,” he said.The Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Olusegun Ogboye, noted that the school eye health programme was launched in 2006 to carry out eye screening for pupils in primary schools.
However, he said the new eye programme in secondary schools started with the training of teachers and that it will end on February 11, 2022.“So far, 306 teachers have been trained and 175 vision corridors have been installed. We expect that after the training all the teachers will be able to carry out the vision screening assessment,” Mr Ogboye said.
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