As Ghana joins the world to celebrate World Optometry Week and World Optometry Day, the Ghana Optometric Association (GOA) invites the public to learn more about the profession that plays a vital role in protecting sight and improving quality of life.
Optometrists are primary eye care doctors who diagnose vision problems, prescribe corrective lenses, detect eye diseases and treat them,offer low vision rehabilitation and also help prevent avoidable blindness. Their work is essential to strengthening eye health systems and ensuring communities have access to quality vision care.
To mark the celebration, here are five insightful articles worth reading:
- The Critical Role of Optometrists: The Primary Eye Care Doctors
Explores the important role optometrists play as frontline providers of eye care.
https://citinewsroom.com/2021/03/the-critical-role-of-optometrists-the-primary-eye-care-doctors-article/
- World Optometry Day: Celebrating a Legacy of Vision
Highlights the history, growth, and impact of optometry in improving eye health. https://citinewsroom.com/2025/03/world-optometry-day-celebrating-a-legacy-of-vision/
- Low Vision: Somewhere Between Seeing and Not Seeing
Examines the realities of people living with Low Vision and the importance of rehabilitation services. https://citinewsroom.com/2026/02/low-vision-somewhere-between-seeing-and-not-seeing/
- Optometry: More Than Just Eye Care
An article by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness explaining the broader role of optometry in global eye health
https://www.iapb.org/news/optometry-more-than-just-eye-care/
- Optometry and the Future of Vision Care
Discusses the growing importance of optometry in addressing global vision challenges.
https://share.google/UkY170tD0KWj3a0kI
