Training on Eye Health Awareness for Community Health Workers
15 March 2023, Hazaribagh: Under joint auspices of Sightsavers supported Rural Eye Health Programme by NBJK and NCD Cell of Hazaribagh Sadar Hospital, one day training upon Eye Health Awareness was organized for community health workers, ANMs & ophthalmic assistants. The training held at ANMT Training Centre of Sadar Hospital and covered various topics like eyes’ anatomy, their caring, causes-symptoms-treatment of diseases like Cataract, Glaucoma, Diabetic Retinopathy, Pterygium etc and referral points like Sadar Hospital and NBJK run LNJP Eye [...]
Accessible Eye Healthcare Empowers Women
14 March 2023, Jhajha (Jamui, Bihar): Mrs. Pobiya Devi, a 68-year-old traditional delivery assistant/midwife from Dhamna village in Jamui, Bihar, was unable to earn a living due to her failing eyesight caused by cataracts. However, thanks to the support of NBJK run Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital (VRBEH), Deoghar and SBI Foundation, Mrs. Devi's vision was restored, and she was able to resume her work as a midwife with renewed confidence and comfort. Mrs. Devi's income was dependent on her [...]
VRBEH-SBIF Make Geezerhood Easy
13 March 2023, Sono (Jamui): Mr. Bhuneshwar Majhi (70 years), father-late Giro Majhi, lives at village-Balthar, post-Sono and district-Jamui in Bihar. He is a landless tiller from SC community, does sharecropping upon 1.25 acre land and arranges food security for nearly six months. Also he works as an agriculture labourer to fulfill family requirements. With diminishing eyesight continuously, Bhuneshwar felt troubled. Since he needs to go to the fields regularly for agriculture related activities, one day he fell on ground [...]
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 [...]