Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

Nav Bharat Jagriti Kendra

17 – 20 April 2019, Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribag): NBJK run LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital (LNJPEH) has launched a four phased campaign in rural areas of Gaya district to identify cataract patients and ensured their eye surgery. LNJPEH organized eye screening camps at villages namely Kurkihara, Aamas, Nimbua and Singhatiya in different blocks of the district as well as arranged transportation of the patients from their place to the hospital and viceversa.

During the period of 4 days only, 100 cataract suffering people were found and sent to the base hospital for surgery. Mr. Sudeep Abhishek (Manager, LNJPEH) has briefed that all the patients met successful cataract surgery and this campaign was supported by Mukul Madhav Foundation, the CSR partner of Finolex Industries. They sponsored 100 cataract patients for their eye surgery, he informed. On this occasion, also Mr. Vijay Kumar (Senior Sales Executive, Finolex) and Mr. Karunanidhi (Asst. Manager, LNJPEH) were present who met the patients and provided them medicines.

Its noteworthy that during last 15 years, Bahera & Dumka units of LokNayak JayPrakash Eye Hospital have attended more than 5 lakhs patients and restored sight to 80 thousand plus cataract suffering people came from 14 districts of Jharkhand & Bihar.