By Shivangi Bhatnagar | Eye Camp
Eye Camp and free spectacles and eye drops distribution
World Sight Day- 2nd Thursday October 2018
-By Shivangi Bhatnagar- Program Officer, Health
World sight day is an annual day of awareness which is held on the second Thursday of October to focus global attention on blindness and vision impairment. In 2018 World Sight Day was celebrated on 11th October 2018.
International Agency for the prevention of Blindness aims at-
Antarnes is a backward village in Santalpur Taluka, Patan where The Hans Mobile Medical Unit visits every week. The Grey population of the village is deprived of the medical treatment .also as this village is nearer to salt pans hence we came across many people who had complaints regarding poor eyesight and vision as they are salt pan workers.
As a result an eye camp was observed in Antarnes village. The villagers were informed about the camp one week prior by word of mouth publicity and continuous announcements by the MMU staff and health worker. The camp was organized at Shree Antarnes primary school.
Impact:
The registrations were followed by screening test by an ophthalmologist and eye drops were provided as per the requirement of patients, for free. The patients with cataract operations were referred to Sarvodaya Hospital, Radhanpur.
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