Poor sight leads to lower grades, new study shows

Dr Emmanuel Okenwa in his office at the Department of Optometry and Vision Sciences in Masinde Muliro University. [Duncan Ocholla, Standard]

Many students could be silently suffering from an eye condition that is making them perform poorly in class, experts say.

According to a study done by optometrists at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, the condition known as Decompensated Heterophobia (DH) occurs when the two eyes are not directed towards the fixation point (maintaining of the visual gaze on a single location for some time).