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27 February 2018, Bahera Ashram, Chouparan (Hazaribag): Mr. Jayant Sinha, Lok Sabha Member from Hazaribag & Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, has inaugurated the newly built Medicine & Specs centres of LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital. Messrs Girija Satish (President, NBJK), Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK) and LNJPEH staffs have received honourable minister and his companions in hospital premises.

Mr. Sinha was honoured with a shawl and memento during a simple function held on this occassion. Mr. Satish Girija has presented an overview of the works delivered by NBJK during it’s long journey since 1971 and requested the MP to provide an Optometric Machine for eye hospital. The hospital has served more than 2 lakhs 68 thousand eye patients, restored eye sight of around 81 thousand cataract patients at subsidized rate or free of cost, Mr. Satish Girija mentioned. Mr. Umashankar Akela (Ex-MLA) has appreciated NBJK’s initiative in the fields like education, livelihood, mass awareness, health care and it’s concern for common people.

Mr. Jayant Sinha too has shown great respect for the works by NBJK in rural areas, particularly for running a modern eye hospital at a village. He promised to provide an Optometric Machine for the hospital and informed the people about ongoing projects of Akshay Patra (for nutritious mid-day meal in schools) and the Medical College-cum-Hospital with 500 beds at Hazaribag. The minister requested NBJK management to start another eye hospital at Ramgarh district also and offered his full support for the cause.

Many prominent persons like Messrs Amit Shrivastava (BDO, Chouparan), Manish Kumar (DSP, Barhi), Rajnath Alok (SDO, Barhi) and political aides of Mr. Sinha were present in the inaugural ceremony.