Road-side Care
Out of the regions we’ve visited this week from the streets of downtown Kumasi to the rural dirt roads of Aboabo, downtown Kumasi seems to have the most need. However, I have seen not very many patients with mature cataract cases come and visit. This I believe is due to the roughly 25 ophthalmologists that work in and around Kumasi. Most of the patients are in the late 40’s to early 70’s and have presbyopia. Presbyopia is caused by the passage time. As explained to me by Josiah, presbyopia is the slow loss of the eyes ability to focus on objects up close, such as words on your smartphone or bible. This condition is usually corrected by using a + prescription such as +2.00,+1.75 etc. It has been amazing learn how Josiah diagnoses people and how satisfied his patients are as they walk away smiling with a new pair of glasses for the price of ten cedis which comes to approximately 2 US dollars. He explained to me how he diagnosis presbyopia in the field outside of the cli...