Ms Bharti Janiyani, Senior Hospital Manager of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital has been selected for the Young System Leader Award-2025 of IAPB (International Award for Prevention of Blindness). This International agency is working in the field of blindness control. This award will be given to 9 system thinkers across the world. Out of them two system thinkers are from India. They have been selected for this award at the global level. Bharti Janiyani of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital Bhopal and Eight identified young system leaders have been selected from Botswana, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Israel, Singapore and an unknown country respectively.
These system leaders will share their ideas with global representatives of this field at IAPB’s “2030 In Sight Life” program in Kathmandu Nepal. The selected system thinkers will be felicitated in Kathmandu in the month of May 2025. Before this, the selected system thinkers will discuss their innovative ideas and discussions with global leaders. Under IAPB’s “2030 Insight program” in Kathmandu from 29 April to 01 May so that their ideas can be included in the program. IAPB President Ms. Caroline Casey has advised the system thinkers to be present in this program to know the innovations to be adopted to design the eye health program at the global level.
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.