Eye Check-Up Camp in Delhi NCR

Posted by Akansha G.
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Jun 14, 2016
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Today, there are many organisations in India that set up or sponsor health check-up camps to fulfil their corporate social responsibility towards the society. These camps are generally organised in the rural and remote areas of our country where the healthcare services are inaccessible. The nature of such check-up facilities is to be available free-of-cost to all sections of the society.

Communities Which Are Treated

The communities which are covered under free health check-up include the marginalised and vulnerable segments of population. Under this programme, the most crucial is the eye examination which holds importance because problems related to the eyes can affect the normal vision in a person. Not just the elderly but the young too are entitled to receive medical aid at a free eye check-up camp.

Solution to Cataract and Refractive Errors

Collaborating with an organisation, a teleopthalmology team reaches a semi-urban area or a village where timely examination and medication is ensured for the needy. The poor and needy are treated for their eye-related ailments that may affect all demographics. Commonly, the check-ups are carried out to detect Cataract problems in the elderly men and women and to treat the younger and middle-aged population with uncorrected refractive errors. During check-ups, the patients are provided with spectacles for correcting their refractive errors.

Why Cross Examinations Are Needed?

Patients who are identified with different nature of eye complications during the preliminary examination are referred further to the main hospital where they get cross-examined at other departments too. Cross examinations become necessary as the patients may further need investigations like Ultrasound, Optical Coherence Tomography, Humphreys Field Test and Fundus Fluorescein Angiography that are to be conducted free-of-cost.

Facilities Available at the Campsite

Though, there are several rehabilitation centres to offer medical aid to the needy, an eye check-up camp in Delhi NCR is usually a common sight. Here, cataract extraction is done with IOL implementation, lodging, medicines, spectacles, food and transportation (between the main hospital and camp site) facilities available.

Beneficiaries Involved

The only aim that lies behind is to ensure the healthcare services reach villagers who cannot afford it. The beneficiaries generally include industrial labourers, especially the elderly who hail from the lower economic section with a remarkably changed quality of life that makes them self-dependent. Some of the organisations intervene to offer patronage for transforming lives in villages and offer them quality eye care.

Patronage is Welcome Change

An important aspect of their patronage involves creating mass awareness about eye-related ailments and eye care. Efforts like these show a way of how we can bring technology at the doorsteps of rural populace by turning them from abstract to reality.

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