Member of Parliament from Bhopal, Shri Alok Sharma inaugurated a free eye check-up camp organised by Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Bhopal on 25th December 2024.
The camp was organised to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of former Prime Minister of India, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Shri Sharma paid rich tributes to the former PM highlighting his personality and service to the nation.
At the camp, 115 were diagnosed with eye problems – 23 were detected with cataract while 13 were found to have other eye ailments.
Thirty-six spectacles were provided free of cost at the camp and 50 were provided with free medicines.
MP Shri Alok Sharma praised the service of Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital. He distributed free specs and medicines to patients with visual impairment and blankets to the poor families living in nearby slums.
SSEH Trustee Suresh Awatramani, Sr. Optometrist Ajay Singh, BJP office bearer Rakesh Kukreja and others were present for the programme.
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.