As many as 45 catarct surgeries were carried out at the Pujya Tapaswi Jagjiwanji Maharaj Eye hospital, Peterwar by renowned eye surgeon Dr DK Gupta here on Thursday. Free medicines and spectacles were also distributed among all the patients on Thursday evening.
In tune with the aim of lions and 25 years of unrelanted service to ophthalmic patients, the lions Club of Bokaro Thermal successfully organized its 26th Eye Relief camp jointly with DVC SIP. Altogether 318 patients has been registered here on January 19 at DVC Bokaro club out of which 45 have been operated upon.
According to the club president Jogendra Giri, the lions club of Bokaro Thermal had done commendable work in the field of social service and hoped that they would continue their untiring effort. While the club secretary U.K. Nair told the pioneer the beneficiaries expressed happiness over the holding of different type of free eye and medical checkup camps in rural areas which are deprived of medical facilities available in rural and suburbs.
Earlier inaugurating the camp ,J.P. Singh ,CE &project head ,commended the efforts of the organizers in making such operations within the reach of poor villagers.
Those who extended help in organizing the camp included ln G.Jha ,ln Dr H .Kumar, ln Dr Veni K.,ln S.B. Singh ,ln S.D. Singh ,ln P.P. Srivastava,ln T.N. Singh ,ln Ashok Kumar Sakuja ,ln N.P. Sinha ,ln Jitendra Gupta ,ln B.M. Prasad,A.K. Tiwari of SIP among others .