By DR.KRISHNA R MURTHY | PROJECT LEADER
Under our outreach activity Community based rehabilitation for visually impaired programme (CBR) in association with Operation Eyesight Universal & Givaudan India Pvt Ltd was started in an Urban Slum in Bangalore with specific objective of identifying persons with curable and incurable blindness, low vision and visual impairment & to provide need and age based rehabilitation services including developmental, educational, mobility, life skill, economic & social rehabilitation services. Under this programme 17686 children were screened in the field. 12 children were assessed for the level of low vision and were provided with suitable low vision aids followed by admission to integrated school. The above childrens' best corrected visual acuity was 6/18 or even less & field of vision was less than10 degree. The main diagnosis of the above children for low vision was Congenital Glaucoma, Rod cone dystrophy, Total Retinal Detachment, Retinitis Pigmentosa & Congenital cataract.
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