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Naren Eye Care and Vivekananda Eye Camp Programme

This Ashrama, in collaboration with Blind Foundation for India, USA, has been executing Naren Eye Care
(For Children) and Vivekananda Eye Camp Programme (Cataract detection and operation for adult) since
2010 for providing eye care service to the rural children and adult deprived of all types of medical facilities.
Generally the headmasters of respective schools are contacted through our volunteers of Vivekandna Seva
Sangh to fix the date of the camp. Then in the camp, eye check-up is done followed by a small awareness
meeting on the “Proper Care of Eye”. Once the children are identified with problem in eye sight they are
provided with spectacles in the next camp. Children are also provided with medicines like vitamin-A, de-
worming tablets, eye drop etc. The cataract operation camps are also organised for the elderly people.
After the identification of cataract, proper medical tests are done before cataract surgery.
To execute this programme successfully, this Ashrama had a collaboration with Niramaya Hospital, Ranchi,
which bore all the operation and post operation costs. The performance record of this programme is as
given below :

Naren Eye Care (Children Eye Sight Programme) and Vivekananda Eye Camp
(Cataract Identification/Operation Camp for Elderly People)

Total Number of Camps - 129
Total Number of Villages - 108
Total Number of Children - 8306
Beneficiaries

Total Number of Spectacles Provided - 832
Total Number of patients covered - 3051
under Cataract Identification Camp
Total Number of Patients undergone - 144
cataract operation Spectacle Distribution

Naren Eye Care and Vivekananda Eye Camp

50 Annual Report 2019-20