Woman eye been examined |
An optometrist, Dr Anne Ebri, has advised women to embrace
regular eye check up to stem the increasing number of blind people in the country.
Ebri gave the advice in Abuja on Monday in Abuja.
According to her, most women are always pursuing the task of taking care of
their families to the detriment of their health.
Quoting the National Blindness and Low Vision Survey conducted in 2006, Ebri
said that more than 1.1 million blind people were recorded, noting that women
outnumbered men in the record.
She attributed the unfavorable figure to the failure of women to adequately
access eye care services in the event of any challenge with their eye sights.
According to her, some of them are either ignorant of available services or
entertain the fear of going blind on visiting optometrists.
He, however, advised them to prioritize medical help for any health challenges,
adding that it was only a healthy people, who could manage the home well.
``Data has shown that women seem to have twice the risk of becoming blind than
the men, not because they have more eye problems but because they are not
accessing eye care services.
``The reason is for economic power, as females are more dependent than the men;
instead of them to access health facilities for their challenges, they spent
their time attending to family needs.
``In a poor family for instance, with paucity of funds, it is the girl child
who suffers, as she may be asked to stay at home to assist the mother while the
boy child goes to school,'' Ebri said.
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