SIVAKASI WEATHER
Eye Camp - Sankara Eye Hospital

09-07-2012
9th July 2012

Courtesy: Mr.Pawan Kumar Khaitan

Eye Camp in Sivakasi

Sankara Eye Hospital in association with Mr.Khaitan organised 92nd Eye camp, on 8th July 2012, Sunday, an eye screening and cataract surgery camp held here at the Sivakasi Chamber of Trade Promotion. 160 patients screened under various refractive errors and other diseases by a team of ophthalmologists from Sankara Eye Hospital. Of them, 102 patients were referred for free surgery to be conducted at Sanakara Eye Hospital and all the 102 patients were given free spectacles. The free services will include eye check up and refraction for glasses, medicines, eye surgery and glasses at discount rate. As a part of the camp food were distributed for all the beneficiaries. A team of 6 volunteers from Arasan Ganesan Polytechnic College participated in the camp. Mr.Pawan Kumar Khaitan, the organiser of the eye camp said sivakasiweekly.com, that, in last 8 years, out of 91 eye camps, in total, 6,954 eye operations have been performed by this camp, screening eye camps and outreach eye camps along with examination and treatment of 14,541 patients till June 2012. For majority of cases, facilities such as treatment, operations including IOL, lodging and boarding are provided free of cost. This eye camp will be held on second Sunday of every month, he added.






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