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Susrut Eye Foundation Research Centre - Community Ophthalmology |
Blindness has become a major public health problem worldwide especially in
developing countries like India. Recent statistics showed existence of at least
60 million blind people in the world and 12 million blindness in India alone.
These numbers will be doubled if not more by 2020 if urgent intervention is not
taken apart from normal hospital schedule. Surprisingly, 80% of total blindness
is preventable or treatable. 90% of them reside in rural areas where health care
facilities are extremely inadequate. From Susrut we try to serve our ophthalmic
services to these needy areas.
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Cataract Screening & Surgery for needy elder |
This is the largest cause of blindness in India and accounts for approx 62.2% of
total blindness. 3.8 million New cataract cases every year add up with this
number. 90% cataract cases reside at rural areas from where people cannot reach
for hospital services. From our hospital we try to reach these populations with
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School Eye Health |
Blindness in pediatric age group is a burden to the families and society as it
greatly reduces the productivity and financial growth of community. As we all
know, if vision is not corrected by the age of 8 years, it causes permanent
visual loss of the child called amblyopia (lazy eyes). Our aim is to identify
school children with poor vision and to treat them accordingly in out tertiary
level hospital. Our hospital is well equipped with pediatric ophthalmologist,
orthoptic instruments, squint clinic and low vision aid services. We regularly
visit primary schools with our trained personnel. Underserved areas are our
target where malnutrition is a major issue, but we have also extended our
services to urban areas.
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Mobile Eye Clinic |
With the help of Sightsavers International a vehicle with modern diagnostic
equipments and trained Ophthalmologists & Optometrist operated by Susrut Eye
Foundation to reach places where inadequate eye care facility is available.
Mobile eye care unit is also utilised in refractive camps, awareness ,workshops
and school health. |
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Training Programmes |
Apart from serving needy population, we have several training protocols to
develop man power. Important among them are
- Training of surgeons,refractionists and OT staffs.
- Training of all personnel involved in cataract screening, evaluation and related
matter.
- Training of school teachers for primary vision testing, basic eye care of
children and prompt referral to hospital when required.
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| Vision Centres |
Sometimes we cannot reach remote place with our full team. So we have set up
vision centres there. Its function is to deliver primary eye care like
refraction, dispensing glasses, screening cataract patients and referring
patients to hospital. These are run by experienced refrationists and
para-medical staffs. At present we have 20 vision centers all over West Bengal.
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| Other services |
To tackle the demand of present situations we are trying to extend our services
to various other fields in community basis like
- Primary Screening of diabetic retinopathy.
- Primary screening of glaucoma.
- Conducting various seminars and workshops to increase consciousness among
people.
Our aim is to deliver high volume community ophthalmic services without
compromising quality.
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