Placards with messages on glaucoma symptoms and donning t-shirts with the hospital’s logo, doctors, Trustee, and staff of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital took out a rally on 14 th March 2024, the penultimate day of World Glaucoma Week.
The World Glaucoma Week observed from 10 – 14 March 2024 is to raise awareness among the general public about glaucoma. The most effective way to spread this message is to reach out to people directly.
The rally to the heart of Bhopal city was led by two doctors from the hospital’s glaucoma department, Dr. Samta Patel, Associate Director & Glaucoma Specialist, and Dr. Sapna Shrivastav. They were accompanied by one of the hospital’s trustees, Shri TD Adwani, and the hospital staff.
The team from the hospital distributed pamphlets on glaucoma signs and symptoms.
An enthusiastic team from the hospital rode bikes crisscrossing the city, carrying placards with messages about glaucoma written on them.
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.