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| Introduction |
The Tulsi Chanrai
Foundation, a charitable, philanthropic
and non-profit voluntary organization is engaged
in community development activities focusing on
the areas of primary health care, eye care services
and drinking water supply.
Cross River State Eye Project is sponsored by General
Agro Oil Industries Limited
and Dry Fish Producers from Iceland and Faroe Islands. |
| Cross River
State |
- Cross River State is one
of the thirty-six States in Nigeria. It is in
the South-South Geopolitical Zone.
- The State shares common boundaries
with Cameroon Republic in the East, Benue State
in the North, Enugu and Abia States in the West
and the Atlantic Ocean and Akwa Ibom State in
the South.
- The Government is capitalizing
on the ecotourism potential of the plateau as
source of income for the State.
- The State has a population
of 2.66 million (50.3 % males
and 49.97% females) with a landmass of 98,000
square kilometers.
- There are three major languages in the State:
Efik, Bekwarra and Ejagham.
- The state lies within the
tropical zone hand and has two seasons, the
wet season between the months of May and October
and dry season between the months of November
to April.
- Calabar the state capital
records the maximum amount of rainfall every
year.
- The vegetation varies from
tropical rain forest in the south and savannah
in the north.
- Literacy rate is 62%
with a male female distribution of 70 and 54.
- The infant mortality rate
is 50 birth/1000 populations
and life expectancy at birth is 64 years.
- Travel, particularly in its
southern belt crisscrossed by numerous mangrove
swamp creeks, can be difficult and in the other
belts because of poorly maintained feeder roads.
One of its local government areas, Bakasi has
been an area of conflict and contention between
Nigeria and Camaroon and thus has suffered gross
neglect.
- Health services are poorly
developed compared to other parts of the country.
There is no funding for blindness prevention
apart from payment of staff salaries.
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| Performance
Analysis: 2006-07 |
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Facts on Curable
Blindness in the State |
| Blindness
prevalence rate is |
01
% |
26,598 |
| Cataract
accounting for |
50
% |
13,288 |
| Glaucoma
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15
% |
3,990 |
| Corneal
opacities |
11
% |
2,925 |
| Refractive
Errors |
10
% |
2,660 |
| Others |
03
% |
798 |
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An
estimated 26,598 people are blind in the state, 65% (17,288)
of whom have cataract and glaucoma, the incidence of new
cataract blind is 2657 annually (20 percent of the prevalence).
The Cataract surgical rate is
393 per million population which is for below the Vision
2020 recommended rate of 1000 for the region.
Poverty is both a cause and consequence
of blindness. Only 41% of the population is economically
active, the larger population is economically inactive.
The cost of cataract surgery in the Government hospitals
is N16000 ($110) and as high ($200 to $ 250) in private
hospitals. As a result the few available services are
financially inaccessible to the larger population.
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Out- reach screening
programs |
| The Outreach screening program
covers 54 Communities in 11 Local Government
Areas of Cross River State. 6138 people have
attended the screening in the outreach programmes
and 2156 cataract patients were identified
and 1218 reported to hospital for operations.
Mobilization and awareness is done by Community
Directed Distributors of Onchocerciasis
Control Programme and Extension workers
with the help of Village Clan heads, Church
Leaders and Local Council Members.
The screening camps are organized at the
health centers.The Screening Team of CRS
Eye Centre identify the operable cataract
patients. Other patients are given referral
notes to visit Eye Care Centre, Calabar
or nearby Eye Clinics. |
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