Six out of nine family members of Sanjesh Yadav have been operated upon in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital recently. This entire family is ailing from cataract eye disease in their both eyes.
Sanjesh and Chandrakala Yadav have six daughters and a son. Cataract surgeries were performed in one eye each of Anshul (14) and Sakshi (12) years, while surgeries of both eyes of Muskan 10, Srishti 6 and Simmi 4 year have been done in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital.
Due to some medical reasons surgery of sixth daughter Vaishnavi (8 years) has not been performed. Cataract operation of only son of this couple Shivanand (2 years) was also done on August 22, 2017. After removing bandage from the operated eyes of the children there were not a limit of their cheerfulness as they have now started seeing this beautiful world. Imported lenses are implanted in the eyes of children.
Senior Medical Director Dr Prerna Upadhyay says that the disease of the children is family heredity. Financial assistance have been Sanctioned by CMHO Vidisha under Rashtiya Baal Swasthya Karyakram. Param Hansa Sant Hirdaram Sahibji in his life time stressed the need of health services to poor and needy persons of the society. Following his teaching, Siddh Bhauji is trying to render and spread maximum services and assistance to visually impaired persons.
Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital in collaboration with international NGOS Sight Savers and ORBIS is undertaking Vidya Jyoti School Eye Health Programme since 2016. When the team of the programme knew about this ailing family, the field workers of SEHP brought them in a camp which was organized by Sewa Sadan at Sindhi Colony Vidisha on July 10.
This family came to this camp and got themselves diagnosed. On observing this old ailment in their eyes, hospital staff brought them to the base hospital at Sant Hirdaram Nagar, where a team of surgeons examined them. Sanjesh Yadav is working in a water purification plant near his village and gets salary of Rs 5000 per month. Children go to school but all they were not able to see anything in the class room’s black board and in books.