Thursday, May 28, 2009

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).

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