Over 200 albinos came together at the Accra Rehabilitation Centre as the World marked International Albinism Awareness Day.
The event put together by the Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism (GAPA) sort to create awareness on the condition and help albinos with how to cope with their condition.
Around one in 20,000 people worldwide are born with oculocutaneous albinism, caused by a lack of the pigment melanin, which gives hair, skin and eyes their colour.
Medical experts say “Albinism is a rare, non-contagious, genetically inherited difference occurring in both genders regardless of ethnicity, in all countries of the world”.
“Both the father and mother must carry the gene for it to be passed on even if they do not have albinism themselves.”
As part of the event, Doctors from Ghana blind union delivered talks on how albinos could for their eyes and skin whiles issues bordering on discrimination were also discussed.
International Albinism Awareness Day is marked on the 13th June each year.
