Costless Eye Screening & Cataract Surgery for Villagers
07 March 2023, Giridih-Jamui-Deoghar: Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital-Deoghar, the very fourth unit of LNJP Eye Hospital by NBJK after Hazaribagh, Gaya and Dumka, is performing well in eradication of avoidable blindness. The medical teams from its Vision Centre at Bengabad (Giridih) with support of Sightsavers and the base hospital are organizing Free Eye Screening Camps in villages of Giridih and Jamui districts. They identify Cataract patients and arrange their transportation, food, surgery, medicines, black glasses, post-surgery follow up services [...]
Rashtriya Netra Yagna Contributes to Vision Restoration
05 March 2023, Dumka: Mr. Kalu Dutta, 70 years, lives at village-Pokhariya in Shikaripara block of Dumka district in Jharkhand. He is an old aged person but runs his family of five members actively with help of his son. Kalu Dutta is a small farmer with annual income of Rs. 45,000 only. He had vision problem for a long time unattended as per assumption of age related factor. But it was growing gradually and halted Kalu’s activities up to an [...]
Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital Restores Eyesight to Have-nots
24 February 2023, Deoghar-Giridih-Jamui-Lakhisarai: NBJK run Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital, Deoghar is dedicated to eradicate avoidable blindness from rural pockets of Deoghar, Giridih, Jamui, Lakhisarai districts in Jharkhand and Bihar. Within a short period of 11-23 February, VRBEH has organized 12 screening camps at the villages like Katwara, Alodih, Nimnawda, Jaridih, Gurha, Keshabpur, Kishnitand, Jaruwadih, Mananpur, Durgadi in Jamua, Birni, Sono, Lakhisarai blocks of these districts. The initiative ensured 331 OPD and found 22 cases of Refractive Error, 197 [...]
Advocacy Meeting upon Eye Health
21 February 2023, Hazaribagh: An advocacy meeting with key stakeholders held at NBJK under Rural Eye Health Programme with support of Sightsavers, NPCB, NRHM and JSLPS. This was participated by representatives from media, corporate and NGOs along with Sahia didis, DPOs & PRIs members. Initially Mr. Kirti Rawat (DPC-REHP) introduced about the programme with its activities & achievements. He said that by attaching Vision Centres with CHCs, providing eye checkup devices at health centres and organizing screening camps at remote [...]
Grassroots Intervention against Cataract
13 Feberuary 2023, Hazaribagh: Mr. Ranchandra Saw (65 years), son of Mr. Budhan Saw, village-Purni Peto, block-Keredari and district-Hazaribagh, is a farmer by profession. His place is around 55 km away from district headquarters. He has developed Cataract in both of his eyes. Because of slowly diminishing eyesight, he didn’t take any notice initially. It continued for approximately one & half year but made him nearly blind at last. This was very painful to think that now I can’t see [...]
19 Camps, 595 OPD and 351 Cataract Surgeries
11 February 2023, Giridih-Jamui-Lakhisarai-Deoghar: NBJK run Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital, Deoghar is conducting outreach screening camps for free Cataract surgery. The initiative has the back up of Sightsavers supported Vision Centre, Bengabad (Giridih), Naraindas Morbai Budhrani Trust and SBI Foundation separately. During the period of 25 January-10 February 2023, VRBEH has organized 19 eye screening camps at remote villages of Giridih, new places like Sono, Simutala, Jhajha in Jamui and Mananpur in Lakhisarai districts of Jharkhand & Bihar. The [...]