Eye Check-up Camp

At the Eye Check-up Camp organized on World Sight Day, 8th October 2007, by Sri Sathya Sai Sewa Organization (of New Delhi) at MCD Primary School in Vikaspuri, Dr. Narendra Kumar, Trustee, Eye Care India, flanked by volunteers, examined 138 students, and those with ‘departures from normal’ were advised as under:

Rx for antibiotic eye drops - 12
Rx for vitamin B-complex - 13
Rx for multi-vitamin tabs. - 1
Advice for checking up of patency of lacrimal passage - 1
Advice for refraction check-up - 20
Advice for orthoptic check-up - 1
Advice for fundus examination - 2

There was one case each of the following conditions:

Sub-conjunctival haemorrhage
Blephritis
Suspected blockage of lacrimal duct

It was observed that attending to such students belonging to poor families will become more meaningful when rather than mere advice, there’s provision for free

1. Distribution of antibiotic eye drops & multivitamin preparations and
2. Professional refraction check-ups followed by dispensing of spectacles.

But since this exercise needs adequate funds, it was felt that there’s urgent need of contributions from corporate houses / funding organizations.

The picture shows (above) Dr. Kumar doing retinoscopy, and (below) students waiting for their turn at the Camp.

Dr. Narendra Kumar