Bagamoyo District Director, Shauri Selenda, has a word with some of the Bagamoyo residents who were checked and treated during a three-day free eye camp conducted by the Lions Club of Dar es Salaam –Mzizima at Bagamoyo District Hospital---in which over 500 are expected to benefit from the exercise. (Photo by Correspondent).
By Correspondent, Bagamoyo
More than 500 Bagamoyo residents with eye problems are expected to benefit from a three-day free-eye camp conducted by Lions Club of Dar es Salaam-Mzizima at Bagamoyo District Hospital.
“This is a huge support from the Lions Club Mzizima to the people of Bagamoyo, with eye problems but can hardly afford treatment costs,” Bagamoyo District Director, Shauri Selenda, said yesterday at the official launch of the three-day free eye camp in Bagamoyo, Coast Region.
Hundreds of residents turned up at the camp for eye check-up, treatment of general eye ailments and cataract surgery, according to district director, noting that “all these people will be checked freely and given free medication—special thanks to the Lions Club –Mzizima for the help.”
Around 50 per cent of Bagamoyo residents are facing cataract-related problems, according to district director, appealing to the residents to come forward in large number in order to get checked and treated at the free-eye camp.
Selenda urged other charity organizations (both local and international) to emulated Lions Club example, and provide similar support to the wider Tanzanian community with eye and other health problems countrywide.
Instead of being confined to the adults, director proposed that “next time, such eye-camps needs expanded and cover secondary and primary schools—in a quest to reach out to thousands of pupils and students with various eye problems.”
Bagamoyo District Hospital Medical Doctor, Kandi Lusingu showered huge praises on Lions Club Mzizima for the free eye camp, which she said would relieve thousands of residents from eye and related problems.
“I, however, request that in the next phase, eye-check-up exercise should go hand in hand with giving spectacles to those detected to have sight-problems...I believe our friends would be in a better position to assist us on that,” said district medical officer.
On his part, Lions Club Mzizima President, Baruani Muslim said the organization is more than committed to cooperation with government agencies and organs to get millions of Tanzanians out of eye and other health problems.
Besides eye camps, which are regularly conducted throughout the country, he said the Lions Club Mzizima had been supporting needy communities in various—access to free diabetes screening, cataract surgery, environment protection etc.
“Basically, our goal is complement government efforts aimed at improving the welfare of its citizens, fast-track economic growth and development and subsequently lift the nation to the industrial economy,” said Muslim.
Omary Shabani, one of the beneficiaries of Lions Club-sponsored free eye camp, hailed the idea of extending the exercise to the secondary and primary schools, saying the move “would significantly improve the pupils’ performance and finally lift up the education standard in our country.”
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