By Marium Kamran | Resource Development Manager
A couple of days back Abdul Baqi brought his 9 year old son Jannan in emergency to LRBT Hospital with a 2” piece of wood pierced into his eye. He told the hospital staff that a child hit my son with a stick while playing when a piece of the stick broke and pierced my son’s eye. I immediately took him to several doctors who told me to take him to the nearest city as he could not be treated in the village, but due to lack of transport that night I couldn’t, though my son was in constant pain. On Monday morning I took him to various hospitals in the nearby city but all of them replied that this case needs a major surgery and we don’t have the facility. Someone there told me about LRBT Free Eye Care Hospital and I rushed him there where my son was examined in emergency and after reforming a complicated surgery, doctors not only removed the piece of wood but his eye, nose and throat were also saved which could have been severely damaged. (See Jannan's pictures below)
LRBT Free Eye Hospital, Lar (Multan) has treated 181,301 eye patients from July 09'- October 2010' and has performed 17,840 Sight Restoration Surgeries absolutely free of cost. This hospital is one of the 16 LRBT Free Eye Care Hospitals and 42 Community Eye Health Care Centres in Pakistan which are situated in a manner that no Pakistani is 200 kms away from an LRBT facility.
Currently LRBT, through its 16 hospitals, 42 Community Eye Care Centres provides FREE TREATMENT to 6553 patients in OPD and performs over 882 major and minor eye surgeries on Daily Average basis throughout Pakistan.
Since its inception 24 years ago, LRBT has treated over 18 million patients and performed over 1.7 million major and minor eye surgeries all free of charge. During the year July 09’ - June, 10’, we have treated 1.97 million patients in OPD and performed over 209,742 major & minor surgeries at a growth of 12 % and 13% respectively free of all charges. LRBT is the major provider of eye care in the country treating 36% of all eye patients, performing 27.4% of eye surgeries and 32% of all Pediatric eye surgeries all totally free.
Help us Give the gift of Sight to 18.7 million more Pakistanis who are either blind or visually impaired and turn them into productive individuals of the society.
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By Marium Kamran | Resource Development Manager
By Marium Kamran | Resource Development Manager
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