By Tripti Pal | Project Leader
India has the largest population of blind people in the world. That’s over 8 million people. Most of them live in the poorest parts of the country with little or no access to even basic health care facilities.
But did you know that 75 per cent of them could have been prevented from going blind if they had received timely treatment? But poverty – which is both a cause and effect of blindness – can be very hard to break out of, especially in the rural areas where most blind people live.
Promoting eye health in India
Preventing blindness increases access to education, employment and prosperity, and enables greater participation in civil, social and political life. Below are some of the eye conditions we help overcome to promote eye health and restore sight.
Cataracts
Refractive error
Glaucoma
ICARE Eye Hospital & Post Graduate Institute , a unit of Ishwar Charitable Trust has been providing free of cost eye care services to rural/urban underprivileged communities in the National Capital Region (NCR) for the last 25 years. ICARE provides eye services by conducting eye screening camps for populations in villages/ slums and performing eye surgeries for patients with curable blindness. We provide free of cost surgical services to over 15,600 patients and screening services to over 150,000 patients from the underprivileged community per annum.
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