Former Air Marshal of Indian Air Force Dr Pawan Kapoor conferred “Pioneer Women of Progress Award” to Dr. Prerna Upadhyaya, Medical Director of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital at Mumbai on International Women’s Day the other day.
Dr. Prerna Upadhyaya during last 30 years had successfully performed over one lakh cataract surgeries in the hospital based at Sant Hirdaram Nagar Bhopal. Apart from this, she had also done more than 2200 eye transplants, since 1994. International NGO Six Sigma awarded Dr. Prerna for her lifetime contribution in the field of eye care.
This felicitation event was organized by Dr. Pradeep Bhardwaj, CEO of Father of Mountain Medicine and Mrs. Anita Bhardwaj, Director of Six Sigma Awards.
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.