Bhaktivedanta, Share your Care, Eye Camp
Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mira Road, Mumbai is once again conducting a free cataract surgery camp at Barsana village, Mathura Dist, U.P. Barsana Eye Camp is an annual feature since 1992. Every year we screen more than 2000 patients and deserving cases are operated for cataract. Barsana is surrounded by a cluster of 120 villages. The villagers here are extremely poor and could barely afford one square meal a day. There are no medical facilities in this cluster. Due to their extreme poverty and lack of medical facilities they prefer to lead a life of blindness due to cataract. Bhaktivedanta Hospital takes lot of efforts to provide them modern and quality services. This year the Bhaktivedanta Hospital will conduct the camp from 31st January to 7 February 2008. All the required equipments, medicines, lenses, surgical items, Operating microscopes etc are transported from Mumbai to Barsana.
The team of volunteers from Bhaktivedanta Hospital and congregation devotees from ISKCON, Chowpatty put their efforts together to build a fully equipped, modern and sterile operation theatre in the primary health center at Barsana. This year the team consists of 12 qualified and well known Ophthalmologists from Mumbai, more than 30 MBBS doctors, 5 Nurses and around 150 volunteers from various fields who all take a break from there respective engagements and make themselves fully available for the camp working for more than 10hrs a day without expecting anything in return.
BARSANA EYE CAMP 2010
Special featurees of the camp:
- Detailed preoperative examination of the eye.
- Advanced imported German Zeis operating microscopes are used.
- Sterilization standards and the protocols involved are of very high standards.
- Suture less surgery for cataract removal with implantation of intra occular lense in each patient.
- 24 hrs. post-operative care before discharge.
- Immediate post operative follow up camp after 4 days of discharge.
- Final follow up after 40days of discharge.
- Patients receive post-operative medicines for 40 days along with 1 blanket and black goggles totally free of cost.
- Wholesome lacto-vegetarian food for the patient and 1 relative till the patient is discharged completely free of cost.
- All the patients and relatives are treated with great love irrespective of their cast, creed and financial backgrounds.
- Children, One-eyed patients and patients requiring specialized care, who cannot be operated in the camp setup are brought to Bhaktivedanta Hospital in Mumbai, are admitted, operated and sent back to Barsana, free of cost. Over 30,000 screened & 3000 plus operated Yet millions remain to be reached. Due to the overwhelming response and dire need of the villagers we also conduct dental camp during the same period at Barsana.
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