Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Bhopal has organised a month-long free eye check-up for senior citizens.
The facility will be available from April 29th to May 28th, 2024. A maximum of 50 registrations per day will be screened on 1st come 1serve basis.
Managing Trustee of SSEH, Shri A.C. Sadhwani suggests that senior citizens take advantage of the free eye screening facility to treat their eye ailments promptly.
Dr. Prerna Upadhyay, the Medical Director at SSEH, recommends that individuals who are 60 years old or above should get their eyes checked every 6 months to a year. The excessive use of electronic devices, TV, and air pollution can cause adverse effects on vision and lead to various eye diseases. Similarly, diabetes can also harm eye health.
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.