{"id":181933,"date":"2024-10-05T23:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-joy-as-800-prisoners-and-prison-officers-receives-free-eye-medical-tests-and-spectacles\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T23:59:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T21:59:24","slug":"zimbabwe-joy-as-800-prisoners-and-prison-officers-receives-free-eye-medical-tests-and-spectacles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-joy-as-800-prisoners-and-prison-officers-receives-free-eye-medical-tests-and-spectacles\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Joy As 800 Prisoners and Prison Officers Receives Free Eye Medical Tests and Spectacles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">More than 800 inmates and prison officers received free eye medical tests and spectacles in Harare on Wednesday courtesy of an initiative by the private sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The initiative was aimed at ensuring that inmates maintain healthy eyesight during their incarceration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Speaking after the testing and screening of beneficiaries at Harare Central Prison, Albino Trust Association&#8217;s executive director Mr Bruce Nyoni said the move will instill a brighter future for the inmates who are currently struggling to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410040080.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 800 inmates and prison officers received free eye medical tests and spectacles in Harare on Wednesday courtesy of an initiative by the private sector. The initiative was aimed at ensuring that inmates maintain healthy eyesight during their incarceration. Speaking after the testing and screening of beneficiaries at Harare Central Prison, Albino Trust Association&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9381,6544,7928,7417,257,6749,5115,6444,6578,254,49680,11560,4686,421],"class_list":["post-181933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eye","tag-free","tag-joy","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-officers","tag-prison","tag-prisoners","tag-receives","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spectacles","tag-tests","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181933","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}