Distinguishing between the different eye diseases to correctly identify Dry Eye Disease, which is characterised by insufficient or low-quality tears to lubricate and nourish the eye, is difficult because of the poor correlation between the signs and symptoms of the disease. Says Dr Pierre Vercueil, ophthalmologist at Sandhurst Eye Centre: “It is important that a thorough clinical evaluation is done to determine Dry Eye Disease.”1 According to Dr Vercueil, Dry Eye Disease is caused by various factors such as age, gender, medication, medical and environmental conditions (for example dry climates, dust, wind, drafts, smoke), long-term use of contact lenses, screen... Continue Reading
By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – Residents of the Township of Upper Caldwell in Montserrado County are appealing to the government and relevant authorities in the country to provide their community safe drinking water. The Upper Caldwell residents are currently drinking from open wells, and complained they are always suffering from water related illnesses. The residents speaking to a WASH Reporter over the weekend in the Township, alarmed that the issue of safe drinking water has been a major problem for them. They also described the situation as embarrassing to the people of the Township and visitors. Madam Miatta Flomo... Continue Reading
……Residents Express Fear, Appeal for Intervention – By: WASH R&E “Media” Network – The issue of the lack of safe drinking water and better sanitation in Saniwhien is alarming and has reached a crisis proportion. The Soniwhien Community on Johnson Street in Central Monrovia has a population of over twenty five thousand residents. Soniwhien suffers from polluted drainages, stock piles of garbage and the lack of safe water. The residents are expressing fears of an outbreak of water related diseases in their community, if nothing is urgently done to address the looming situation. Speaking to WASH reporters over the weekend,... Continue Reading
In aid to tackle two of the most prevalent female cancers – On Friday, 28 March, Renowned local Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), PinkDrive, announced that it will add serious muscle to the country-wide fight against cervical cancer as it unveiled South Africa’s first Mobile Women’s Health Unit in the form of a fourteen ton truck. Described as a Doctor’s Room on Wheels, the Unit boasts a state-of-the-art gynaecology area for pap smears and examinations, a reception area for administration and a radiology area. “Aligned with the local government’s millennium goals and current campaigns, such as the large-scale human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinecampaign, expanding our... Continue Reading
As the UK recovers from and counts the costs of the winter floods, it is hard to see the water that wreaked such havoc here as being not just benign but precious – but for everyone water is life. Yet in 2014 the number of people worldwide who lack access to safe water is estimated at over 780 million – one in ten of the world’s population. Around 7000,000 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation and half the hospital beds in developing countries are filled with people suffering from diseases caused by poor... Continue Reading
