Sunday, September 29, 2013

ROTARACT CLUB OF BANGALORE-SANJEEVANI NETRALAYA RURAL EYE CAMP

The Golden Rock Rotaract Club of Bangalore organised a simple eye screening camp with Sanjeevani Netralaya providing the medical team.
Every Individual including the ones in rural India should get access to quality health care.Awareness about eye health and disease prevention percolates to these areas of India only with the help of team works like Golden Rock Rotaract Club of Bangalore.
These young individuals spent an entire week into planning to an eye care program to the door step of Bagalur-Sarjapura,near Bangalore and Hosur.
On 29th September 2013, this entusiastic team initiatives  reached to this place and thus created a viable,sustainable program for health care.Sanjeevani Netralaya ,Bangalore worked in tandem and integrated their program into an unique eye camp.
Diseases like Diabetic retinopathy ,Glaucoma and Cataracts were detected.What was special here was the emphasis to rehabilitate a few young children with congenital eye defects into a program for the visually handicap.The counselling  done by the rotaracts like Shashi,Manjunath,Jeju, and others will go miles to improve eye care in this village.

Sanjeevani Netralaya provided about 50 free spectacles ,about 50-70 free eye drops and detected 32 patients with cataract.
The present eye care intervention strategy of the Club and Sanjeevani Netralaya could bring significant changes in awareness and behavior of rural people regarding management of their eye problems and hygiene.