{"id":178884,"date":"2024-08-20T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-winnebas-fish-smokers-struggle-with-blindness-and-poverty\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T01:57:16","slug":"ghana-winnebas-fish-smokers-struggle-with-blindness-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-winnebas-fish-smokers-struggle-with-blindness-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Winneba&#8217;s Fish Smokers Struggle With Blindness and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">For the past six years, Ewurama Annan has been living with significant visual impairments. She is completely blind in her left eye and experiences what she describes as extremely blurry vision in her right eye, making daily life a challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Despite losing sight in one eye and struggling with deteriorating vision in the other, she has not yet consulted an ophthalmologist for proper diagnosis or potential treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The condition comes with persistent burning sensation in her eyes and sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408190592.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past six years, Ewurama Annan has been living with significant visual impairments. She is completely blind in her left eye and experiences what she describes as extremely blurry vision in her right eye, making daily life a challenge. Despite losing sight in one eye and struggling with deteriorating vision in the other, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,6304,8555,4508,4509,257,7121,24308,254,11137,49323],"class_list":["post-178884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blindness","tag-fish","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-poverty","tag-smokers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggle","tag-winnebas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}