Goal:
To MARCH towards Avoidable Blindness FREE Bellary District
PROJECT PARTNERS:
BELLARY CEO, BELLARY ZP, Bellary DHO and Bellary Health and family welfare
Highlights of the Program
- Door to door screening of each and every resident for any eye problem
- Entire population of 30 lakhs
- Providing free access to Free Eye Screening
- Refractive errors
- Cataract Identification
- Other eye related problems
- Distributing free spectacles on specific date
- Surgeries to be conducted in Govt hospital
- Entire constituency to be screened and every home to be provided with certificate of screening and AVOIDABLE BLINDNESS FREE Home
- Installing Nayonika Vision Wall in each and every school
- Creating mass eye health awareness
- Post supervision for the sustainability of the program
- Conducting follow-up of the program
MILESTONES:
- Nobled in 2020
- Over 1 lakhs 27 thousand residents of Bellary Urban been screened for eye problems
- 1600 Government schools across district were installed with Nayonika Vision Wall
- 1600 Government school teachers were trained with preliminary eye screening
- Entire residents were screened and spectacles distributed
- Surgeries were conducted for cataract identified patients