Health is of top concerns to humanity. There is a need for global awareness pertaining to this sector. One sector we will be looking at in this article is the areas of eye challenges. Before subjecting this topic to Africa, I think there is a need to have a global view of it. Global health challenges are outrageous, drafting out only eye health impairment challenges we are talking of over 1 billion people. This figure to me seems small when understanding some facts that this feasibility studies covers only areas accessible to research. There is a need to address this issue, eye effects lead to early blindness and blindness is one sickness to avoid.
Sight related challenges in the United state have been estimated in the range of 15-17%. It is something worth noting when talking of how advanced and developed the country is. The issue of Diabetes Retinopathy (DR) has increased the presence of sight impairment. It is surprising that under education is also taking a portion of factors giving way to eye issues in the Us. The issue of alcoholic intake and smoking also adds to the table. If it gets this difficult to curb, we have to move into the developing world setting also do some analysis
Africa holds an estimated 20% of the world's population. Adding to this massive population is also a massive rate of high related problems. Over 40% of the African population is suffering from eye issues. The reasons for these are massive, it is something that will continue to need more interventions to curb. Some worse scenarios are the early blurring effects that are happening to younger children. Did you even know Africa has 19% of the world's blindness? With a rapid population growth in this region, the numbers are likely to go up soonest.
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The issue of low literacy has really chopped into the African economy. It is something that mostly baffles me when I rate most of this African countries individually, I mean, they have ALL this natural resources and man Power added together to stay top of world production chain. I know, it's the issue of mismanagement. That said, high rate of none literate people has made health challenges span across. Some side with superstition practices neglecting early prevention means that would have been adopted to salvage the situation at an early phase.
The issue of poverty or underfinanced healthcare centers and households adds to this. How many have access to good hospital or even afford hospital bills with local ones near them. Poor health facilities, few medical expertise within rural environments, poor communication channels.
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How many people die in Africa due to inability for finance health treatments? The numbers are huge, it very surprising that most government only wait for external help when such pressing matters are on the table.
Adding to that, many don't even know this aid do come free from both government sponsored organization and NGOs( Non Governmental Organizations). Inability to read, write, hear and translate news is a big problem here. How many even have access to telecommunications, even radio sets not to even talk of mobile phones to access related eye health platforms. It is one of the problems I am working to solve within my locality. There was an announcement of free medical care that included eye treatment medications. For a week NOW the turnover has not been that nice meaning more sensitization programs must be conducted.
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I must add that UNICEF and USAID have tried in many ways to curb. Nevertheless, factors like poor means of transportation in rural Africa remain a big limitation. Adding to that, insecurity and local beliefs have scared away foreign help. Training more eye care doctors, nurses and specialist that reside in this rural areas is one way to boost patients confidence. Just for instance, during the earlier free clinic service I was talking about, reports that locals were not too comfortable with the Doctor who was speaking mostly English was a concern. I am glad they had such experience and brought in local individuals which they've trained overtime.
To conclude, let me add, health care is a very important sector to humanity. Africa is really suffering from the issue of poor healthcare accessibility. We hope to see a decline in this ratio, it is difficult to ascertain from here anyway. When looking at a global financial Crisis, how many sectors may shrink from global aid. We wish the reversal anyway. Africa also need to stand up for their rescue, employing and investing on training eye professionals will go a long way. Research medications should become part of government proposals which will be easy for the rural environment. Even local expertise should be called to consideration at this point.
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