As per the directives of Gouri Singh, Principal Secretary of Health department, a strategic plan to organize outreach camps was discussed here on Tuesday at Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital. In this regard, government hospitals, NGO eye care hospitals, will organize outreach free eye camps in forth coming quarter of the year.
In view to achieve the target of cataract backlog free position in the state, war footing efforts will be made by the health officials. On the occasion State programme officer of Blindness eradication Dr Hemant Sinha, MT of Sewa Sadan lC Janiyani, Medical Director Dr Prerna Upadhyaya, Glaucoma specialist Dr Sapna Prashant, Retina Specialist Dr Riddhima Deshpandey, DPMs, Deputy DPMs and Optometrists were present in the meeting.
Dr Sinha informed the Health officials about the phase wise proposed planning of implementing the strategy. He directed the officials to achieve the target within fix time schedule. Dr Prerna Upadhyay suggested the state medical staff to encourage the society and make their mind set for willfully eye donation. Dr Prerna also imparted the training of the staff how extracted eye balls should be kept and sent safely to base hospitals. She also encouraged the govt. medical staff to inform those patients who are in need of eye transplantation. In Sewa Sadan, as many as 1567 eye transplantation have so far been done.
Glaucoma specialist Dr Sapna Prashant told about the seriousness of the glaucoma disease she further told that timely diagnosis, treatment and periodic follow up examinations of diabetic patients can save them from the big loss of vision. Diabetic Retinopathy specialist Dr Riddhima Deshpandey told the govt. medical staff the method of screening of retina patients. She told the retina patients should be diagnosed timely and refer to the super specialty hospitals so as they can get the timely treatment of this dreaded disease.