Sant Siddh Bhau has said that the Pediatric Eye Health will be on the top most priority of future plans of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital.
He further said that with the partnership of International NGOs efforts will be made to assess the medical requirement of each section of the society and future plans will be formulated accordingly. He was speaking in a Quality Eye Healthcare workshop organized at Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital on Thursday.
This workshop was organized on 31st Foundation day of Sewa Sadan. On this occasion country director of INGO ‘ORBIS’ Dr Rahul Ali and office bearers Rishi Kumar, Madhavan, Manmeet Singh and Dinesh Chandra, Medical Director of SSEH Dr Prerna Upadhyay were mainly present.
Siddh Bhau told that the possibility of construction of new hospital building is under consideration of forth coming plans of SSEH. He told that to render quality Eye Healthcare, special attention will be paid towards the continuous learning programs of eye surgeons, Optometrists and Clinical Staff of the hospital. He said that Paramhansa Sant Hirdaram Sahib has always preached us for service to the poor and needy every time. Saint Siddh Bhau stressed the need to improve continuous quality process in the guidance of experience doctors and executives of ORBIS.
Country Director of ORBIS Dr Rahul Ali has said that the life expectancy of blind person is only 48 years and he/ she always remains dependent on others. He informed that over 1 crore population of the country ailing with the curse of blindness. Dr Ali said over 50 per cent of children losses their vision due to non availability of timely medical facilities. He further said that the age of 6 months of a child, if it is known that the child is suffering from visual ailment then without wasting time the ailing child should immediately be brought under treatment.
Dr Rahul Ali said that after Cataract, Second biggest cause of blindness is pediatric vision loss.
He said that there were only 4 super specialty pediatric eye hospitals based at Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Madurai upto the year 1998. Numbers of these institutes have increased to 33 in the country so far. Dr Ali said that SSEH should firstly identify the target groups of the patients. He said that the good medical institutes gain popularity with the mouth publicity of their patients. He said that good institute always receives positive reactions. At the end Sant Siddh Bhau felicitated Dr Rahul Ali and office bearers of ORBIS by presenting them Shawl and Srifal. On the occasion, Trustee Ramesh Rajani, Hero Keswani, Hospital Administrator Bharat Chawla, AO KK Kapadia, eye surgeons, Optometrist and Clinical staff were also present.