Udaipur: World Vision Day is organized every year on the second Thursday of October, with the view to alert and alert the masses towards vision impairment and blindness prevention. For this purpose, Alakh Nayan Eye Hospital has been active since the last two decades and has given strength to many people free from blindness. In these two decades, more than 9 lakh people have been given eye surgery and more than 84 thousand cataract operations have been done by AlakhNayan Eye Hospital.
This information was shared on Wednesday in the press conference, Dr. L.axmi jhalla Medical Director Alakh Nayan Eye Institute On this occasion, Managing Trustee Dr. Lakshmi Jhalla and executive trustee MeenakshiChundawat were also present.
Dr.Jhalla said that 32 million people in the world are blind victims while 21.77 million people are visually impaired. Out of this, only 20 to 25 percent of people in India suffer from blindness. This problem is frightening in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar etc. It requires collective efforts. Under the National Blindness Reduction Program, the efforts made by NGOs and Ophthalmologists working in this area have been done to reduce blindness to some extent.
From this point of view, the Alakh NayanMandir has been actively engaged in its efforts with great activation. The result of this is that 15 villages of Tribal areas of Jhadol Tehsil have been totally free from blindness. We are very pleased to announce this on World Vision Day. That is why this effort was started by AlakhNayan for the first time in Rajasthan, which is a unique effort in itself. AakhNayan Eye Hospital is trying to free 50 villages from this blindness in this order.
15 villages free from blindness:
It is worth mentioning that the AlakhNayanMandir has started Community Eye Medical Program under Rural Area Health Project since 2011. One crore people in India are suffering from blindness. Of these, 80 percent of blindness can be prevented
Under this project, 109 villages of Jhadol tehsil were divided into 5 clusters. In the project, 54191 people living in 20,931 houses were examined. The field staff conducted a survey by the door to door survey by every door. Weekly camps were organized after the survey. The benefit of free diagnosis and treatment was provided to all patients.
So far 8989 people were examined in total 188 camps and 2227 free operation was done. In addition to the camps, eye check-up programs were organized in 21 schools. 4275 students got the benefit of free checking. Under the project, the state-of-the-art Vision Center was established in Jhadol in 2014. There is no other medical services/glasses in addition to the Vision Center of AlakhNayan in whole Jhadol tehsil.
