The JPM Rotary Club of Cuttack Eye Hospital & Research Institute is all set to observe its silver jubilee foundation day here on Saturday and Sunday. Governor SC Jamir is scheduled to grace the occasion, president of organising committee of the institute said Sushanta Mohanty at a Press conference here.
The institute, one of the leading eye care centres in eastern India, was established in January 1992. It is equipped with state-of-art equipments to undertake hi-tech eye surgeries and other diagnostic tests required for eye care.
Having highly trained and competent ophthalmologists and a skilled team of paramedical staffs, the institute offers the best eye care service in Odisha. On an average, 300 OPD patients a day are treated and about 10,000 operations are conducted a year.
Not only the surgeries are conducted at the hospital but also cataract surgery camps are organised by the hospital in different remote areas of Odisha and Jharkhand. Recently, a team of doctors conducted 1,000 cataract surgeries in Sahebganj and Garhwa in Jharkhand.