A sixth-year Doctor of Optometry student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Doreen Tachie-Donkor, together with a team of senior optometrists, has helped restore a young boy's vision, without the need for surgery.
The boy had been suffering from accommodative esotropia, a condition in which one or both eyes turn inward due to the effort of focusing (accommodation).
This condition, popularly known in Ghana as 'alukumi', was successfully corrected by Doreen and her team.
Doreen shared the experience in a recent post on X, explaining that the team used a technique called "wet refraction" to correct the boy's vision. "This process is called wet refraction.
