In a fantastic show of collaboration to create awareness on glaucoma, Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital participated in a Glaucoma Awareness Rally organised by Bhopal Divisional Ophthalmic Society on 7 March, 2022.
Honourable Minister for Medical Education, Government of Madhya Pradesh, Shri Vishwas Sarang was the chief guest for the occasion.
Eye hospitals and ophthalmologists from the city walked through the main bridge of the city which was lit green for the rally. Shri L.C. Janiyani, Managing Trustee, SSEH and his team participated in the rally and contributed towards creating awareness on this ‘Silent thief of Sight’.
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.