CRHP Blindness Control Project

Summary

To provide eye care services that will prevent blindness free of cost or at subsidized rates to the poor and needy population of Jamkhed and surrounding rural areas.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Eye care and eye surgery is extremely expensive and villagers are unable to afford these services. Often people are diagnosed with eye problems too late. We work with Sightsavers International to diagnose disease early and to provide surgeries in the cases where illness has already set in. The prevalence of blindness in Maharashtra is 2%. Through our work we have been able to eliminate night blindness, we now aim to eliminate or prevent other eye illnesses.

How will this project solve this problem?

Project activities include diagnosis and treatment in the villages and at the hospital, conducting surgeries at CRHP’s hospital, organizing screening camps in the community, and providing optical dispensing at the hospital and in the community.

Potential Long Term Impact

Through training village health workers on prevention, we aim to decrease the amount of people getting preventable eye conditions. We aim to serve 40 villages, reaching at least 800 people a year with eye conditions.

Project Message

"When a person loses their sight, they lose their livelihood. It is incredible how restoring sight can have such a tremendous impact. CRHP aims to ensure all people can benefit from treatment."
- Dr. Shobha Arole, Associate Director

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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