Ghana faces a growing public health threat as cases of myopia continue to rise among children.
Otherwise known as near-sightedness, in which people can see close objects clearly but objects farther away appear blurred, the condition is estimated to affecting 115,200 children in Ghana currently.
This, according to the Country Director for non-governmental organisation, HCP Cure Blindness Project, Dr James Addy, was mainly as a result of modern lifestyle trends among children and reduced outdoor activities.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Ghanaian Times ahead of World Sight Day (WSD), Dr Addy said; "we are seeing a high increase in refractive errors for children and 0.9 per cent per 1,000 suffer myopia.