Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital participated in the Vision 2020 India’s Central Zone meeting at Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya, Chitrakoot. Ms Bharti Janiyani, Senior Manager (Operations) represented SSEH at the meeting. The one-day meeting held on 15 th June 2024 saw participation from 25 eye care organizations from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. The meeting focused on the unique opportunities and challenges facing the central zone members and the state-specific issues that require immediate attention. Dr.Rajesh Saini, President of Vision 2020, Mr. Kuldeep Singh, Treasurer of Vision 2020, Dr. Phanindra B. Nukella, CEO of Vision 2020, Mr. Pramod Tripathi, Project Lead at Sight Savers India, and Dr. Kalpana, Manager of Vision 2020, along with leaders from participating hospitals, shared insightful discussions and actionable insight.
Participants focused on unique opportunities and challenges facing the central zone members and the state-specific issues that require immediate attention. As Mr Kuldeep Singh, Treasurer Vision 2020 rightly mentions, such meetings help in
discussing state-specific dialogues and underscore the critical importance of prioritizing eye health in the region.
Thanks, Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya, Chitrakoot for hosting the meeting.
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.