HEALTH WARNING Contact lens recall

Panama’s Ministry of Health has issued a warning about the use of a brand of contact lenses, that may have been acquired via the internet or  from other countries.

 A world wide recall of the brand Sphere Avaira, toric  and spherical, has been issued as the lenses have been causing blurred vision

The head of the Directorate of Pharmacy and Drugs, Eric Conte said in a statement that there is no record of the product entering the country, but it is possible that users have got them from elsewhere.