The Sewa Sadan Eye hospital has decided to treat all the eight members of a family that are facing cataract ailments.
Head of the family, 41-year-old Sanjesh Yadav is a resident of Rangai village near Vidisha and all the members of his family suffer cataract from ailment.
He is father of six daughters and a son. His eldest daughter Anshu is 12 years old while other members of the family are — Sakshi (10), Muskan (9), Vaishnavi (8), Srishiti (6) and Simmi (4). The age of his youngest and only son Shivanand is 18 months.
Mother of the children Chandrakala also faces cataract since her childhood. Due to poverty, illiteracy and negligence towards health, this couple never paid attention towards the treatment of their children and themselves.
Sewa Sadan Hospital in collaboration with an International NGO Sight Savers is undertaking Vidya Jyoti School Eye Health Programme since 2016. Then the team of the programme knew about this ailing family. The field workers of SEHP brought them in a camp which was organised by Sewa Sadan at Sindhi Colony Vidisha on July 10th 2017. This family came to this camp and got them 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 investigated them.
Sanjesh Yadav is working in a water purification plant near his village and gets salary of Rs 5,000 per month. Children go to school but they are not capable to see anything in the class room’s blackboard and in books.
Sanjesh told that once he went to the hospital but they were denied treatment. Pediatric eye surgeon Dr Kavita Gupta after diagnosis of family told that the disease of the children is hereditary. Medical Director Dr Prerna Upadhyay said that if these children would have timely diagnosed and treated, their eyesight could have been saved.
And yet, possibility of vision for the children is there, but even after surgery there is least chances of regaining vision for their parents. On enquiring the financial condition of the family, though they did not speak on the issue, but when they were served milk-bread, the eyes of all children brightened then after.
Chairperson of Sewa Sadan Siddh Bahuji has said that all members of the family will be treated free of charge and lenses of good quality would be implanted in their eyes. Managing Trustee lC Janiyani himself is supervising their regular treatment.