2020 World Glaucoma Week: FMC Yola Takes Free Testing/Screening To NUj Secretariat For Staff And Members

The Periscope reporter

Glaucoma, a global major cause of blindness, is a group of irreversible eye diseases that progressively and, in many cases, silently damages the optic nerve, causing gradual and permanent vision loss.

To be able to address the eye disease, a week is set aside annually globally, to create awareness and educate people about the Glaucoma, its prevention and management.

Suffices to say, as a global annual event, “World Glaucoma Week” is celebrated with lectures, paper presentations, seminars, rally, free Glaucoma screening/testing, treatment and counselling, among other activities.

World Glaucoma Week is a joint initiative between the World Glaucoma Association and the World Glaucoma Patient Association. It is reported to have had a highly successful run for the past ten years.

The year 2020 World Glaucoma Week is scheduled for March 8-14

The Ophthalmology Department of the Federal Medical Centre FMC Yola, led by Dr Dahiru Yusuf Ribadu, Consultant Ophthalmologist, in conjunction with the Information and Media Relations Unit of the health facility, joining the popular call, to mark the 2020 World Glaucoma Week, is organising free Glaucoma screening/testing, treatment and counselling, among other activities scheduled as follows:

FACILITATION: Ophthalmology Department/ Information and Media Relations Unit, FMC Yola

ACTIVITY: One-Day Glaucoma Awareness/Counselling, Free Screening/Testing, Treatment and Eye Glasses

TARGET BENEFICIARIES: NUJ Members and Staff

VENUE: NUJ Secretariat, Yola, Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria.

DATE: Wednesday, February 11, 2020
TIME: 10:00

SLOGAN: BIG = Beat Invisible Glaucoma
Be in tune with the Green: Come and get your eyes tested for Glaucoma. Save Your Sight!
Looking forward for your usual cooperation.

Signed:
Adamu Muhammad Dodo
Committee Secretary