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Q3 - Oct - Nov - Dec 2015 - Newsletter
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Dear Friends,
In this edition of 'Dhrishti', our newsletter, I share with you highlights from a memorable quarter. Our partnership with LVPEI expanded even further with the inauguration of the third secondary eye care centre in Odisha. We also entered into two significant partnerships to take primary eye care to different parts of India – with the Fullerton India Credit Company Limited and SABIC.
World Sight Day 2015 was commemorated in October with a mega eye screening event in the Cricket Club of India premises in keeping with our belief that avoidable blindness can be prevented with timely detection and care. Events were also organised in other parts of the country.
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Mission for Vision's partner L.V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) formally inaugurated their 3rd secondary eye care centre in Brahmapur, Odisha. The Arjun Waney Eye Centre was presided over by Shri Naveen Patnaik, the Honourable Chief Minister of Odisha. MFV has supported the construction of the operation theatre complex at this centre. Aiming to provide quality as well as affordable care to the people, LVPEI aims to screen over 20,000 patients in year one itself and undertake over 1600 surgeries. The dignitaries present were Mr. Arjun Waney (Founder) and Ms. Devika Mokhtharzadeh (Trustee) from Savitri Waney Charitable Trust, Dr. Prakash Mirchandani (Trustee) from Mission for Vision, Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak, Minister, Health and Family Welfare and Information & Public Relations, Govt of Odisha, Sidhant Mohapatra, Member of Parliament, Brahmapur, Dr Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik, MLA, Brahmpaur among others.
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Mr. Naveen Patnaik, Hon'ble Chief Minister, Odisha (right) is greeted by Mr. Arjun Waney, Trustee, Savitri Waney Charitable Trust at the inauguration ceremony
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At the launch of the Community Eye Health initiative
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The Fullerton India Credit Company Limited is supporting the Community Eye Health initiative at Ahmednagar district. It was formally inaugurated at Kopargaon Vision Centre by Mr. Ashish Singh (General Manager, Sales and Product Head – Rural business) in the presence of other Fullerton officials, Tulsi Chanrai Eye Hospital and Mission for Vision team members. The project aims to screen over 3,840 patients in the first year and undertake over 300 surgeries.
Under this initiative, the Community Health Worker undertakes door-to-door survey to identify people with eye conditions, screening camps are organised with a qualified optometrist in attendance, and patients diagnosed to receive treatment at the base hospital are transported from the camp to Tulsi Chanrai Eye Hospital.
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The locations of the outreach camps are Ahmednagar, Kopargaon, Niphad, Srirampur, Sangamner and Rahuri.
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“They See, They Learn” programme in Bangalore (rural) was initiated on 27th November, 2015 with the support of SABIC to provide comprehensive eye care to school children. This initiative is being directly implemented by us, Mission for Vision, with technical support from our partner - Sankara Eye Hospital as part of our wider Mission Roshni initiative geared to eradicate avoidable blindness among children. Through this project, the team aims to reach out to over 3,500 children. Students identified with refractive error are provided spectacles and those requiring further detailed check-up and intervention are sent to the Sankara Eye Hospital for diagnosis and treatment. The first screening camp was held at the Sarjapura Government School, Anekal Taluka. During the day 161 students between the 1st and 7 th standard were screened. A total of 12 children were identified with refractive error and were
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A school student's eyes are screened at the eye care camp in Sarjapura
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prescribed glasses. 9 more students were referred to the Sankara Eye Hospital for further check-ups and their examination facilitated at the hospital, free of cost.
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Mr. Kekoo Nicholson, President, Cricket Club of India, inaugurating the eyecare camp on World Sight Day 2015
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World Sight Day 2015 was commemorated on October 8th, 2015. Mission for Vision organised an eye screening camp along with the Cricket Club of India (CCI) in their premises in keeping with our belief that avoidable blindness can be prevented with timely detection and care. The one day eye screening camp was open to members of the CCI, their staff and the general public. It was conducted with technical expertise from our partners (Bhojraj Chanrai Sankara Eye Hospital, Malad and Tulsi Chanrai Eye Hospital, Nashik). During course of the day over 240 patients were screened and eye conditions, if any, were diagnosed. People from economically disadvantaged sections of society were provided spectacles at the camp site and those requiring further investigation were referred to the base hospital - Bhojraj Chanrai Sankara Eye Hospital, Malad, Mumbai.
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We also completed a photo-documentation of our reach into the north-eastern region of India covering Assam and Meghalaya. The photographer, Nilanjan Basu writes about his experiences of our work, of the remoteness of the villages and of the people
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In this quarter, we have surveyed nearly 2672 eyes. As always our Community Impact Assessment done six months after surgery, amongst randomly selected patients shows that 90% of them have visual acuity in the good (6/6 – 6/18) category.
Do write to me with your suggestions and feedback at ekurian@missionforvision.org.in.Thank you for your constant encouragement and support. We would not be able to progress without it.
Regards,
Elizabeth Kurian
CEO, MFV
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