Eye Camps:
At present the Trust is carrying the following activities every year: 300 IOL Eye Surgical Camps, 150 School Children Eye Screening camps.
Districts Covered
Camps are conducted at present in nine districts viz. Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Warangal, Mahaboob Nagar, Medak, Chittoor, Karim Nagar, Guntur.
A Typical Eye Camp
An eye camp is planned well in advance and the organizers select the camp site. 3 or 4 days before the eye camp pamphlets are distributed. Organisers may use Loud speakers on Autos, Tom Tom, or any other means to propogate the message.
A camp unit usually consisting of a medical doctor, refractionists, technicians and counselors arrive by 9'0 clock at the camp site. If the distance to the camp site is over three hours, the unit arrives a night before to the nearest town and arrives at the camp site in the morning.
The typical flow chart of an eye camp is as follows :
1. Registration: the Camp patients register themselves.
2. Medical Examination: The Patients are screened for any eye ailments. And depending on the ailment, they are given medicine, sent to Refraction, admitted for surgery or referred to the Base Hospital.
3. Admission: The admitted patients are tested for Diabetes, Blood pressure, Tension, and Lacrimal test.. If they are normal in all the tests the patients are selected for Surgery. If they do not test normal, they are referred to the base hospital. The admitted patients are sent t o counseling.
4. Refraction: Patients sent here are tested for visual acuity and if they do not have a perfect vision are prescribed spectacles.
5. Medicines: Patients who have been prescribed medicines b the medical doctor are given free medicines.
6. Optical Shop: Spectacles are provided at a subsidized cost to the patients who have been prescribed. If the sponsorer so chooses, they are given free of cost to the patient and the sponsorer is billed for the cost.
7. Counselling: The patients who have been admitted and have been selected for surgery are given counseling about the Pre-operative, Operative and Post-Operative care.
The Patients are transported to the base hospital for surgery, usually the next day. The patients are given food, IOL surgery, medicines and Spectacles free of cost. Then after a couple of days after post-operative care they are transported back to the camp site and are given follow u check up every week for 6 weeks
Other Eye Camps
The other camps that are conducted in conjunction with IOL camps or separately are Diabetic Camps, Glaucoma Camps, Vitamin-A distribution Camps, Spectacles distribution Camps and Eye Donation Camps.
At present the Trust is carrying the following activities every year: 300 IOL Eye Surgical Camps, 150 School Children Eye Screening camps.
Districts Covered
Camps are conducted at present in nine districts viz. Hyderabad, Ranga Reddy, Nalgonda, Warangal, Mahaboob Nagar, Medak, Chittoor, Karim Nagar, Guntur.
A Typical Eye Camp
An eye camp is planned well in advance and the organizers select the camp site. 3 or 4 days before the eye camp pamphlets are distributed. Organisers may use Loud speakers on Autos, Tom Tom, or any other means to propogate the message.
A camp unit usually consisting of a medical doctor, refractionists, technicians and counselors arrive by 9'0 clock at the camp site. If the distance to the camp site is over three hours, the unit arrives a night before to the nearest town and arrives at the camp site in the morning.
The typical flow chart of an eye camp is as follows :
1. Registration: the Camp patients register themselves.
2. Medical Examination: The Patients are screened for any eye ailments. And depending on the ailment, they are given medicine, sent to Refraction, admitted for surgery or referred to the Base Hospital.
3. Admission: The admitted patients are tested for Diabetes, Blood pressure, Tension, and Lacrimal test.. If they are normal in all the tests the patients are selected for Surgery. If they do not test normal, they are referred to the base hospital. The admitted patients are sent t o counseling.
4. Refraction: Patients sent here are tested for visual acuity and if they do not have a perfect vision are prescribed spectacles.
5. Medicines: Patients who have been prescribed medicines b the medical doctor are given free medicines.
6. Optical Shop: Spectacles are provided at a subsidized cost to the patients who have been prescribed. If the sponsorer so chooses, they are given free of cost to the patient and the sponsorer is billed for the cost.
7. Counselling: The patients who have been admitted and have been selected for surgery are given counseling about the Pre-operative, Operative and Post-Operative care.
The Patients are transported to the base hospital for surgery, usually the next day. The patients are given food, IOL surgery, medicines and Spectacles free of cost. Then after a couple of days after post-operative care they are transported back to the camp site and are given follow u check up every week for 6 weeks
Other Eye Camps
The other camps that are conducted in conjunction with IOL camps or separately are Diabetic Camps, Glaucoma Camps, Vitamin-A distribution Camps, Spectacles distribution Camps and Eye Donation Camps.
| HOSPITALS' FACILITIES Services Available The following ophthalmic services are available in the Hospital namely Eye Check up, Refraction, Cataract, I,O.L, Phaco, Cornea Transplant, Retina, Squint Treatment, Neuro-Ophthalmology , Glaucoma , Vitreo- Retinal, Oculoplasty , Contact Lenses, Emergency Service etc., and above all houses Smt. Vangoori Laxmamma Lions national Eye Bank.. A Pharmacy, An Optical Shop, an Outreach (Eye Camps) Department are also located in the hospital. Infrastructure The Hospital is a Multispeciality Eye Hospital having 100 beds. 85 free beds 15 paying beds. A separate paying section., and a separate free section., with OP/IP sections separately and having four operation theatres in a separate block. The Hospital has all the equipment to make it a state-of-the-art hospital. The hospital has 5 microscopes thus enabling five doctors to perform surgeries at a time. It has Yag Laser, Diode Laser, and automated perimetry among other latest equipment. Statistics
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