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Community & Rural Development

Subhadip Bhattacharya

India has over 12 millions blind people, the largest anywhere in the world. 80% of blindness can be prevented through a simple cataract surgery or a pair of spectacles.Our target locations in the selected currently do not have any eye care services. In most of the target locations even optical shops are non-existent. People wishing to avail eye care services have to travel long distances and consult private practitioners in urban cities. These practitioners cater to only those patients who can afford to pay. This means most of those requiring services simply do not access them. 
 The proposed project aims to promote avoidable blindness free villages communities on a sustainable basis through the twin strategies of empowering communities and making accessible quality eye health services at all levels. The project will result in a highly practical model for elimination of avoidable blindness that can be replicated not just in the proposed states of intervention but across other underserved parts of India and South Asia.The proposed project interventions include recruitment of community based health workers from the target communities, their capacity building, conducting door to door survey to identify those at risk of losing sight, developing micro plans for village clusters, building awareness and improving health seeking behaviour, capacity building of Government Primary Health Care Workers in eye care, establishing and operating Vision Centers, ensuring delivery of quality eye care services by the base hospitals and working closely with the public health system among others 
 The major anticipated impact of the project will be that there will not be anybody at the risk of losing sight needlessly and that too on a sustainable basis in the selected villages. Elimination of avoidable blindness, in turn will impact quality of the life of people affected by eye health conditions in the sense that they will now be independent to pursue livelihoods of their choice and lead a dignified life.It is a common experience to find people who become victims of avoidable blindness or visual impairment are compelled to give up their livelihood related activities and confine themselves to their homes. The project when completed will enable such people to go back to their original livelihoods thus making them economically independent.

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Sustainable Avoidable Blindness Free Villages

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Education

Imagine being a student sitting in class and being unable to keep up with your peers because the blackboard looks blurry. This is a reality for at least one in 10 students across Maharashtra who don’t have access to quality eye health care. That’s why Operation Eyesight India and our partner hospitals are joining hands with 500 schools across Maharastra’s Latur district to provide eye health screening to 64,000 students.  “We know that vision plays a key part in a child’s learning and development. Poor vision impacts how students perform in school and this can have long-term impacts on their overall wellness and success in life,” explains Dr. Troy Cunningham, our Country Director for India. “Sadly, many students don’t realize they are suffering from vision problems. Sadder still, many families simply cannot afford to get their kids spectacles when they need them.” We have found that between 10 and 15 per cent of students we screen will need spectacles and less than two per cent require treatment for more serious conditions – this means we expect that 9,600 students will require prescription spectacles as a result of the school screening program in Latur district.  
 Operation Eyesight and our partner hospital has the following objectives under this eye screening program: <ol><li>To establish a mechanism to deliver high quality cost effective refractive services to the schools</li><li>To generate awareness among the parents, teachers and students about eye health seeking behavior</li></ol>The planned activities are as below: <ul><li>Preparing the list of students and teachers for the identified schools</li><li>Short listing the teachers, training and supporting them on primary eye-screening</li><li>Organizing the school screening program along with the trained teacher to shortlist the students with eye ailments. Followed by screening by the optometrist the camp to do refraction for the referral students. Students with other eye diseases will be referred to the nearest Vision centre/hospital.</li><li>Providing spectacles to the students with refractive error and ascertain by the teachers that the student wears the spectacle. </li></ul> 
 Refractive free schools will give the students the ability to learn, play and develop along with their peers. The school eye screening program will make the following impact : <ol><li>Eye health screening to 64000 students across 500 schools in Latur district of Maharashtra</li><li>Dispensing prescription spectacles to 9600 students </li><li>Training the teachers and school staff to identify and refer eye health issues of the students</li><li>Improve the awareness and uptake of eye health issues among the teachers, parents and students</li></ol>

School eye screening and eyeglasses can inspire new dreams of students in Latur district

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Elderly Care

India is home to over 20 per cent of the world’s blind population. Approximately 18 million people in India are living with blindness. Sadly, over 90 per cent of these people lost their sight due to avoidable reasons. Cataract is the major cause of blindness across the globe, predominantly seen in those 50 years of age or older. In India, two out of three people who are blind have lost their vison due to cataract, a condition that can be treated through surgery. Even worse, up to 92 per cent of cataract patients remain blind due to a variety reasons. In many cases, people don’t have access to eye health services or even realize that their condition can be cured. If eye health services are available, often times people aren’t aware of them, or they cannot afford to pay for them.For many years, Operation Eyesight has been working to bring quality, affordable eye health care services closer to communities. Our work is critical now more than ever.The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges when it comes to providing quality eye care services. Restrictions suspended most of the eye care services in India for more than 12 months over the last two years. Even when these restrictions were lifted, many people were afraid to travel to a facility for help, and patient traffic at hospitals reduced significantly. All of this had led to a surge in untreated cataract cases.  
 Our Approach to address the Number of Cataract cases Operation Eyesight and our partners will address the cataract backlog using our community-based approach. Community health workers, trained by Operation Eyesight, will conduct door-to-door eye screenings in the target areas. Patients identified will be referred to a nearby vision centre (primary eye centre) or to one of Operation Eyesight’s partner hospitals. We’ll ensure that patients receive transportation to and from the hospital, and that they receive regular pre- and post-follow up care to ensure the timeliness and quality of their treatment. In addition, we’ll monitor and evaluate the project activities and provide our generous donors with an update.We’re currently focusing our efforts on seven High Focus States (Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha and Assam) where there is a high prevalence of blindness and visual impairment among people aged 50 and above. Across these states, a total of 5,000 patients living in our program areas are in need of cataract surgery but cannot afford the high cost of the procedure. Of these, nearly 80 per cent may go permanently blind if their treatment continues to be delayed.Goal: Promote cataract blindness backlog-free villages/communities in selected areasObjective: Provide cataract surgical services for seniors in need in the intervention areas.Target beneficiaries:List names of the project with number of cataract surgeries and name of partner hospitals<ol><li>Rotary Eye and ENT Hospital, Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir - 300</li><li>Vivekananda Netralaya, Dehradun, Uttarakhand - 500</li><li>JL Rohatgi Memorial Eye Hospital, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh - 900</li><li>CL Gupta Eye Institute, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh - 1000</li><li>Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh - 1000</li><li>Trilochan Netralaya, Sambhalpur, Odisha - 300</li><li>Sri Sai Lions Netralaya, Patna, Bihar - 500</li><li>Chandraprabha Eye Hospital, Jorhat, Assam - 200</li><li>Sri Sankaradeva Netralaya, Guwahati, Assam - 300</li></ol>  
 The sight-saving surgery will clear the backlog of cataract in 5,000 patients across seven High Focus States of India. With their vision restored, individuals will no longer have to depend on their family members for support. They’ll have the opportunity to work or help care for their families, enjoy their favourite activities and watch their grandchildren grow up. More importantly, seniors won’t be isolated at home anymore; they’ll be able to participate in and contribute to their family and community. Their overall health and well-being will improve, and their entire family and community will be stronger as result. The support will also help the partner hospitals to kickstart the provision of free surgeries, which will increase the patient flow to the base hospitals in turn adding to the sustainability of the partner hospital.

Promote cataract blindness backlog-free villages/communities

Operation Eyesight India is a non-governmental organization based in Hyderabad. It is part of Operation Eyesight Universal, a Canada-based organization that has been working in India since 1963 to prevent blindness and restore sight. In India, we are currently working with 35 partner hospitals (including government health departments and eminent universities) across 18 states, covering over 90 underserved districts. We have established 157 vision centres to date and declared over 1,072 villages as avoidable blindness-free. In 2022 through our initiatives, nearly 1,100,000 people received a comprehensive eye examination, nearly 121,000 patients received sight-saving surgeries and over 300,000 pairs of prescription eyeglasses were dispensed. Learn more at www.operationeyesightindia.org.We are guided by our organizational vision “Elimination of Avoidable Blindness” and ensure the best services for the poorest irrespective of their gender, caste, religion or paying capacity. We set up primary eye care centers (vision centers), conduct eye surgeries, provide refractive eyeglasses and empower communities. Our innovative model Hospital Based Community Eye Health Program (HBCEHP) helps in achieving seven of the Sustainable Development Goals, thus ensuring sustainable services for entire communities. Outside India, we also work in Nepal, Bangladesh, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia, Liberia and Ethiopia. Due to our long creditable journey we are part of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and sit in the board of Vision 2020, it is a joint program with World Health Organization and 150 other eye care organizations, that strive towards eliminating avoidable blindness. In 2014, our HBCEHP model received the Innovation Excellence Award from Vision 2020 India.Our established network and experience of working with the communities gave us the confidence to respond to the COVID-19 crisis and play an instrumental role in saving lives.

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