Humanitarian group holds post-surgery clinic for cured lepers

Life for the Living Medical and Humanitarian Centre (LILIMED), has organised a post-surgery appraisal clinic at Godokpe near Ho for 49 cured lepers.

Cured lepers have been beneficiaries of free eye surgeries under the auspices of the centre’s within the past two years.

LILIMED, which is a Ho-based eye-care charity, identified, screened, recommended and transported the beneficiaries to the Save the Nation’s Sight Clinic surgery in Accra for the surgeries.

Rev Benjamin Bankas, Director of LILIMED told the Ghana News Agency at Ho-Godokpe in the Volta Region that the appraisal clinic was aimed at treating minor eye cases, such as itching, tearing and blurred vision.

He said the cost of the medical exercise including the provision of drugs, spectacles and lunch to the beneficiaries was GH¢3,500.00.

Rev Bankas said the bulk of those operated upon had cataract while a few of them were suffering from pterygium.

Pterygium is referred to as benign growing of the conjunctiva and grows from the nasal of the sclera.

Rev Bankas said LILIMED’s intervention had saved a number of beneficiaries from blindness.

The beneficiaries reside in a cluster of nine communities on the peripheries of the Ho Polyclinic, which until 1996 was a leprosarium.

Source: GNA