Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday inaugurated the Indian Oil-lVPEI Centre for Rural Eye Health (CREH) at the lV Prasad Eye Hospital premises here.
The Indian Oil Corporation ltd had provided an assistance of `2 crore, as parts of CSR contribution, to the lVPEI to establish the eye centre. For this, an MoU had been signed between to IOCl and the lVPEI in March 2015.
The CREH is designed to provide solutions to visual impairment in rural Odisha. This center will coordinate with the secondary and primary eye care centers under the lVPEI Community Eye Health and Outreach services, said a release.
It would work on the collected data from the secondary centres to create district-level Quality Eye Care protocols, organise district school screening programmes and conduct visual impairment surveys in a systematic manner. It envisages creating an Odisha Vision Atlas that would help planning of quality eye care in the State.
Among others lVPEI VC Dr Taraprasad Das, IOCl, Odisha State Office GM Pritish Bharat and Public Health Assistant Director Bikash Mohanta were present.