Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital and the SBI Pensioners Association jointly organized a free eye camp on 28th July 2023. As many as 65 patients came to the camp for treatment. These include 53 male and 12 female patients. Out of those 28 were identified and advised for cataract surgery.
Besides vision checkup, free blood pressure and diabetes tests of all the patients were done in the camp. Managing Trustee of SSEH L.C. Janiyani and Consultant Col. Dr. Madan Deshpande were also present.
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.