Eye Donation fortnight is observed from 25 August to 8 September in India. Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital conducted various programme to create awareness for the need for eye donation. An awareness programme was organised at the state’s National Health Mission where the staff were oriented for the need of eye donation.
A pledge certificate being presented to Ms Priyanka Das, Director, National Health Mission, Madhya Pradesh by Managing Trustee, SSEH, Shri L.C. Janiyani and Consultant, Col ( Retd) Dr M Deshpande. The team from Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital at the event.
At the hospital, the staff were administered a pledge to donate eyes.
Dr. Rashmi Apte, Senior Consultant addressing the hospital staff regarding eye donation. Ms. Anshu Pathak, Assistant Administrator reading out a pledge for the staff
A programme was organised at Sant Hirdaram Girls College. Senior consultant, Dr. Sarita Kumar, Ms. Maya Gyanchandani, Chief Eye Bank Coordinator; Dr. Chandra Paliwal, Principal of the college and Ms. Anusha Pathak, Assistant Hospital Administrator were present on the occasion.
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.