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“A Healthy Nation Needs A Healthy Vision”

94 Million Persons are blind in India.

254 People get blind every minute in India .


More than 3 million People have been given

“The Gift of Sight” by NSPB”

 
 

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National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB)

National Programme for Control of Blindness was launched in the year 1976 as a 100% Centrally Sponsored scheme with the goal to reduce the prevalence of blindness from 1.4% to 0.3%. As per Survey in 2001-02, prevalence of blindness is estimated to be 1.1%. Main causes of blindness are as follows: - Cataract (62.6%) Refractive Error (19.70%) Corneal Blindness (0.90%), Glaucoma (5.80%), Surgical Complication (1.20%) Posterior Capsular Opacification (0.90%) Posterior Segment Disorder (4.70%), Others (4.19%) Estimated National Prevalence of Childhood Blindness /Low Vision is 0.80 per thousand.
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YAMUNA NAGAR –CATARACT BACKLOG FREE
NSPB-India in collaboration with the Government of Haryana, District Administration and Mr. Nitin Yadav, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Yamuna Nagar started an ambitious programme for Yamuna Nagar Cataract Backlog Free District. The programme was launched in May 2007 and all the blocks in the district of Yamuna Nagar were covered in a planned manner. Ophthalmologists and Para Medics from NSPB-India visited all the blocks in Yamunanagar after giving publicity at grassroot village levels. All the patients who came in the camps in every block were screened and identified and the patients fit for surgery were transported to the Base hospital at Ginni Modi Community Ophthalmic Research Centre, Modinagar in NSPB buses. They were operated using the latest techniques. All surgeries were done free of cost. Postoperative medicines and glasses were given free of cost. Patients along with their attendants stayed at GMCORC, Modinagar and were provided free lodging and food. After post-operative check up they were transported back in the NSPB buses to their respective villages. This programme has covered approximately a population of 8 lakhs. It can be proudly said that as on 30.4.2008 the entire districts of Yamuna Nagar have been declared cataract backlog free. The cataract programme in Yamuna Nagar is still continuing as an ongoing programme. The Haryana Governor, His Excellency, Shri A.R. Kidwai praised and applauded the work done by NSPB-I in making Yamuna Nagar the first cataract free district of Haryana. Thanks to NSPB’s Gift of Sight Program, the elders can now lead a life of dignity and do not have to depend on anyone.



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NSPB-India has been allotted a piece of land in Karkardooma in East Delhi for starting a state of the art eye hospital and research center. The plan for the same has been sanctioned by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi and it is proposed to construct a building of approximately 10,000sq.ft which will provide the latest in eye care facilities to the people of East Delhi at affordable costs. The Bhoomi Puja for the construction of the building was held on 6.6.2008 and work on the building has already started.

 

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