12 July, Chouparan (Hazaribag): Many patients suffering from Glaucoma or Kala Motiya now find relief at Glaucoma Clinic established at Loknayak Jai Prakash Eye Hospital with support of Aditya Birla Financial Services. The clinic was started in March’16 and provides all related tests and treatment to common people at subsidized rate. Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Director, LNJPEH) said that there are more than 100 patients who have been treated here successfully.
Glaucoma Clinic offers specialized care on 4 days (Tuesday to Friday) weekly in between 9 am-1 pm. Eye pressure damages optic nerve and hinders images from retina to brain, black spots come inside vision field and we become blind, he explained. Since the process is quite slow and painless, one may not notice the disease easily and if once visual loss occurs due to nerve damage, it is irreparable.
The symptoms include severe eye pain, blurred vision, squinting or blinking of eye, change in color of iris, headache, rainbow haloes around lights etc. and factors like age, family history and severe anemia add to the risk of Glaucoma, Mr. Gaurav has informed.
Since there is no charitable treatment of Glaucoma available at Chouparan and within radius of 100 km around, LNJPEH run Glaucoma Clinic is proving its worth for poor patients live in villages.
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