Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital and Sant Nirankari Mandal jointly organized a mega free eye & dental diagnostic camp at Sant Nirankari Satsang Bhawan, Jahangirabad Bhopal on 23 February 2022.
Sr. dental surgeon Dr. Hansa Dudani examined for dental problems and Sr. Optometrist Ajay Singh Thakur, Ankush Soni, Vidhi Sahu and Nikita Gaur from Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital screened for eye ailments.
Ms.Sonam Vidhani, Shri. Purshottam Mulani and Shri Ashok Juneja, Zonal Manager of Nirankari Mandal were present at the camp.
Nisha Solanki belongs to a large family of two brothers and four sisters (of whom 3 are married). Both her brothers and elder sister attend school. Nisha’s father is mentally challenged. The responsibility of earning is on the mother, who is a daily wage farm labourer and grandmother, who tends to her goats. Two earing members for a family of ten.
Blindness in children leads to deep impact on psychological, emotional, and socioeconomic growth to the family. A child with blindness is more likely to have delays in developmental milestones, to be more frequently hospitalized, and die during childhood than a sighted child. Such severe vision loss also adversely effects the educational activities, orientation, and mobility from the early stage of life resulting in lack of employment privilege. These differential characteristics between a sighted and non-sighted child is more obvious in developing countries. Moreover, the disability adjusted life years (DALY) loss in a blind child is far more than that of adults with blindness.