Many people risk going blind due to their failure to receive early treatments for their eye infections, the Ghana Blind Union has noted, adding that such persons are mostly unaware of their condition. The Union said it is therefore important for everyone to undergo eye screening, at least once in every two years, so that any eye defect could be corrected in good time. The union said the condition has become more apparent following outreach programmes organised by them as part of effort to create awareness and correct some of these sight defects. Speaking to Joy News, Dr. Anthony Kobblah of the Eye Clinic at the Ghana Material Resource Centre for the Disabled said because “of the possession of two eyes, people fail to understand or know when they have eye problems, so they walk about freely, not knowing that they have only one eye”. It is when the vision is going down drastically that they become conscious that something is going wrong, he explained. Statistically, he said about 20% of Ghanaians have conditions like glaucoma which doesn’t indicate any sign or symptoms that something is going wrong with the eye. This is the main reason why people need to frequently undertake the eye test, he stressed. Glaucoma, Dr Kobblah said, is an irreversible blindness that one can do little or nothing about; therefore, he advised that everyone should undergo sight check to prevent future sight problems. In a related development, the Coordinator of the Ghana Blind Union, Madam Theodora Kpotsi in an interview, disclosed to Joy News on Thursday that the Union is currently organising free eye screening programme at the centre in Accra. She said though the programme coincides with the World Sight Day which falls on Thursday, the Union has been attending to visitors for the past week as part of the initiatives to increase the awareness of sight related problems and diseases.