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Eye Department
The Ophthalmology Department began with a big bang in 1973 when an Eye
camp was held in Padhar Hospital in which Dr Vijay Ali was
the visiting surgeon who subsequently operated on 375 cataract patients
and the whole place was 
crawling
with patients with eye patches. The eye Department was set up with the
help of CBM who helped with the infra structure and for providing free
eye care to all patients in need. Dr Rajesh David, Dr Pradeep Henry, Dr
Cherian Varghese, Dr Veronica Francis, Dr Oliver Paul, Dr Nayak,
and Dr Raman worked here for different periods time in Padhar. Dr
(Mrs) Manjula Klavara has been working here since 1994.
Mr. Albert joined in 1973 as a refractionist and set up the optical
workshop in Padhar Hospital for an isolated place such as Padhar there
would be no use to give the patients a prescription because it would never
materialize into spectacles for sheer lack of facilities anywhere nearby
in the next 100 kms radius. Mr. Albert also set up Optical workshops in
Bisamcuttack, Khurai, Diptipur, Shahdol and Ambala. We have Prem Nayan
to do all our statistics alongside him.
The Eye department which was started as a EYE CAMP MODEL and
still continues to do so for the very needy people in this extremely underdeveloped
part of the country. It aims to provide to curative and preventive eye
services for Betul District and other surrounding districts.
We do these eye camps in collaboration with other voluntary NGOs and the
National Blindness Control Program of India. Betul District has much
inaccessible terrain and the literacy rate is also very low. The main barrier
to surgery is fear of surgery and inaccessible roads.
The winter months are the busiest and every year
we screen about 9000 patients and do school screening for childhood eye
diseases. We are able to meet the CBM target of doing 1500 cataract surgeries
a year. We have been able to shift from doing only intracap to extracapsular
cataract and Intra-Ocular Lens Implant (IOL) surgeries. We do eye camps
at many government Primary health centers and mission hospitals where we
are able to do 50 to 350 surgeries at a single camp with the emphasis on
doing IntraOcular lens implants for majority of the patients.
Facilities Available
