Free Camps and Eye Surgeries
Every third blind person in the world is an Indian and almost 80% of this blindness is due to cataract. Majority of our poor patients affected by cataract are unaware of their disease and the fact that they can be permanently cured by a simple surgical procedure. If left untreated, an advanced mature cataract can prove disastrous and can lead to permanent blindness.
NETHRA JYOTHI TRUST, the charitable wing of The Eye Foundation has conducted numerous eye camps and school health camps through its charitable hospitals Thirumurthi Nethralaya at Triupur and Rajalakshmi Nethralaya at Coimbatore. The hospital at Thirumurthi Nethralaya located at Tirupur came into existence in March 1985 to provide critical eye care to the poor patients in and around Triupur, Palladam and Avanashi Taluks. Dr R. Chitra, the Managing Trustee is carrying out the ideas of late Dr K S Thirumurthy a leading physician in Tirupur and Grandfather of Dr. D. Ramamurthy. It was originally started as a clinic and it became a full fledged Eye Hospital with in-patient facility in the year 1992. The Hospital caters to the weaker section of the society by providing free and concessional treatment in Ophthalmology. In the year 2008, 3884 economically deprived people have been examined in the outpatient department of Rajalakshmi Nethralaya itself.
"PHACOEMULSIFICATION" with intraocular lens implantation is done for the poor patients free of cost in our charitable hospitals. 405 free cataract surgeries have been performed so far in this year (2008).
SCHOOL SCREENING
The Eye Foundation conducts regular school screening camps
completely free of cost, to ensure that our budding citizens have a
perfect vision to achieve their mission to become tomorrow's citizens.
In the year 2007 – 2008, 50107 school children from 48 different
schools in and around Coimbatore were screened and 5381 were found to
have defective vision. Similarly, 6338 students from 9 colleges were
screened and 1353 were found to have refractive errors.
SUDARSHANAM-GIVING LIGHT TO THE DOWNTRODDEN
SUDHARSHANAM" is our endeavour to enhance our community service activities. A one time payment of Rs. 7,500/- can be made by any individual or organisation for performance of a cataract surgery on any specified day for an indefinite number of years. This amount will be deposited in a separate corpus in a fixed deposit and the interest generated year after year will be used for doing free surgery on a deserving poor patient. The donor can also identify a poor patient every year to benefit from this scheme. Any person with a monthly family income below Rs. 2,000/- can qualify for free treatment under this scheme. Immediately after the surgery the donor will be intimated about the name and address of the patient along with his or her photograph.
Your donation towards this scheme can be sent to our Coimbatore address. On receipt of which we will send you an enrollment form.
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