04 March 2024, Deoghar: NBJK run Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital, Deoghar is serving as the fourth unit of LNJP Eye Hospital group run by NBJK. It’s located at Deoghar City with coverage area of 05 districts like Deoghar, Giridih, Jamui, Lakhisarai and Banka in Jharkhand & Bihar.
VRBEH has 30 beds, up to date devices, experienced ophthalmologists, qualified medical team, spacious premises, high-class management and all amenities for patients & their attendants.
Within a year, it has conducted 10717 OPD and performed 3211 Cataract Surgery, out of which about 90% was free. It organized 156 outreach eye screening camps at far-flung villages, ensured vision checkup for 4657 people not having any eye care service and reached to weaker section of society. At outreach camps, medical teams identify Cataract patients and arrange their transportation, food, surgery, medicines, black glasses etc at the base hospital. Also they bring them back to their places after vision restoration and provide post-surgery follow up services.
During a specific eye screening drive launched for school children of Deoghar City, VRBEH has found that about 25 to 30 percent children are suffering from Refractive Errors and issued an advisory for parents. Likewise it took initiative of eye examination service to the children of local Blind School-cum-Orphanage, found 04 children with restorable vision and offered its service.
The eye hospital has installed an OCT Machine to diagnose internal eye screen, retina, angiography, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy etc very easily with perfection to make treatment successful.
Also VRBEH provides orientation training to ASHAs and Anganwadi workers for mass awareness on eye health in villages and runs four well-equipped Vision Centers at Bengabad, Giridih, Jhajha and Jasidih to expand its reach to rural population and to provide them quality eye healthcare services.
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