Community Outreach programs:
As a part of our Community Outreach Programs, we conduct camps in the nooks and corners of the State of Andhra Pradesh and transport the patients to the base hospital in our buses, provide them free care, lodging & boarding and transport them back to their homes/villages after treatment. The post-operative follow up is also carried out at their respective places of residences in towns/villages. We also give them post-operative medicines and spectacles free of cost.
Since the inception we have examined about 9.5 lakhs out-patients and have performed about 81,000 surgical procedures. Further, as our dream is to strive for a “World without Childhood Blindness”, we screened over 7 lakhs school children, provided about 20,000 corrective glasses and also performed surgeries.
Eye camps are conducted with a dedicated fully air-conditioned Mobile Eye Clinic (an Ophthalmic Van) which is equipped with LCD Vision Chart, Lens Set (Trial Set), Retinoscope, Slit Lamp plus 90D lens, Auto Refractometer, Chair Unit, Fundus Camera, Perkins Tonometer, Indirect Ophthalmoscope, Auto Lens Meter, Examination bed etc.
This equipment is used to screen Refractive errors, Cataract, Glaucoma and Diabetic Retinopathy eye problems in patients. Post-operative care is also provided ‘free of cost’. Most of these patients are elderly women and/or daily wage earners. The infrastructure at base hospital includes dedicated wards and staff to attend these patients.
