500 Cases of Diabetic Retinopathy at LNJPEH @WorldDiabetesF

NBJK run Loknayak Jaiprakash Eye hospital, Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribag) has treated 500 patients of diabetic retinopathy successfully since launching of the special program on preventive and curative measures for the disease in July 2013 with support of World Diabetes Foundation, Denmark. Mr. Aseem Ali (Asst. Manager, LNJPEH) has informed about awareness drive in 100 villages and quiz competition in 50 schools over diabetic retinopathy by the hospital. He referred the data by WDF about 170 million diabetic people worldwide with assumed number of 366 million by the year 2030 while 1.85 million people are currently suffering from the blindness namely diabetic retinopathy caused by diabetes. It’s significant that with support of World Diabetes Foundation, LNJPEH could serve such patients with modern equipments and remarkable precision at the small village of Bahera as most of the people are unable to afford proper treatment of this sort of sightlessness at distant places. Mr. Ali has added further about growing number of diabetic patients in villages also where people are supposed to be hard workers manually. The eye hospital organizes screening camps in remote villages to access people in dire need of eye care and provides them all possible medical help immediately with the objective of quality service at low cost.