By Our Reporter
Lapaire, a pan-African eyewear brand, has offered free eye screening and testing services to students at Kyambogo University. The testing is being conducted at the university’s annual health camp which is ongoing until Saturday, June 5th.
According to Kenneth Ndahura, a B2B Partnership Assistant at Lapaire, the outreach program to Kyambogo university comes as part of their broader campaign dubbed “your eyes wellbeing, our priority” in which they are reaching out to different communities to create awareness about sight problems and their impact on people’s day-to-day life.
“The biggest challenge we have realized in the eyecare industry is accessibility and affordability. These are the two big challenges we are trying to address at the moment.” Said Kenneth Ndahura.
“By coming to Kyambogo university, we are bringing eye care services closer to the community hence making them more accessible.” He added.
He further noted that this will not be the last engagement they are having with students as he revealed they are trying to reach out to other learning institutions to offer similar services.
Caroline Ayebare, the health minister at Kyambogo University revealed that this is the first time they are having ophthalmology services being offered at their health camp and extended gratitude to Lapaire for coming on board.
“Our health camp used to run for two days, but this year we are happy to say it will go on for a week.” Caroline Ayebare added.
Organised by the university guild, this year’s health camp is being held under the theme “collaborative action protecting communities through health awareness.”
During the camp, students will receive several other services including cancer screening, COVID-19 testing and safe male circumcision among others which are all being offered for free.