Week-long free eye checkup camps are being organised jointly by the Rotary Club and the State Health Department at different Public Health Centres across Keonjhar district.
As many as 55 patients have been detected to undergo cataract operation in three days since the camps launched on November 16.
“The patients would undergo operation at the District Headquarters Hospital here. Rotarians have been assigned duties to work as volunteers in the eye camps,” Informed Keonjhar Rotary Club secretary Basant kumar Dani.
Apart from organising camps, Rotarians led by president SC Khattoi also undertook cleanliness drives in the hospital premises, he said.