A New Vision Centre at Guraru by LNJP Eye Hospital-Kajha, Gaya

17 October 2022, Guraru (Gaya): NBJK run LNJP Eye Hospital-Kajha, Wazirganj, Gaya has started its 3rd Vision Centre at Guraru block headquarters after Gaya City and Mohanpur block in Gaya district.

The Vision Centre was inaugurated by Dr. Mazhar Hussain (Medical Officer In-charge, Guraru block) who praised the initiative to provide eye care facility in such a remote area. On this occasion, Mr. Gandharv Gaurav (Program Director, NBJK) said that our Eye Health program is committed to be accessible for all.

The Vision Centre is being supported by Sightsavers and became fully functional from the very first day. This provided eye checkup service for total 43 persons and 08 eye patients have been detected with Cataract.

Mr. Santosh Kumar (DPM, SCB-Sightsavers program) & team have contributed to the event. Mr. Santosh Kr. has informed about opening of next Vision Centre at Khijarsarai block of the district soon to fulfill need of local people.

Girl Students Get Geometry Box & Register

15 October 2022, Hazaribagh: Geometry Boxes and Registers are being distributed among the girl students of Remedial Coaching Centres run by NBJK with support of UTI Mutual Fund.

Total 1080 girl children enrolled at 30 RCCs of different villages in Churchu and Sadar blocks have already received registers and distribution of geometry boxes is going on. Till date, geometry boxes have been distributed among 270 girl students from 9 RCCs of Mandai, Lakhaiya, Baihari, Sakhiya, Churchu, Meru, Jagdishpur and Rola villages.

It’s significant that since December 2021, these RCCs provide free tuition of subjects like Science, Maths and English for two & half hours before or after school time as per convenience of students on every working day.

In the last board exam held for class X, 196 out of 262 girl students of RCCs have secured first division.

LNJPEH Organizes Eye Screening Camps on World Sight Day

13 October 2022, Hazaribagh-Dumka-Gaya-Deoghar: On the occasion of World Sight Day, the units of NBJK run LNJP Eye Hospital have organized special Eye Screening Camps.

LNJPEH-Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribagh) has called Screening-cum-Covid Vaccination camp at Girls Middle School, Nawabganj, Hazaribagh and many needful old aged persons, children & PwDs have come here. It ensured total 115 OPD and 12 persons detected with Cataract. All differently abled patients have been provided medicines & specs free of cost. Also 15 persons including 08 PwDs got Covid vaccine in the camp.

At Bahera, one day training upon better eye health care was provided to the hospital & govt. staffs. More than 50 health workers, paramedical staffs & optometric assistants from Itkhori, Chouparan and Barhi blocks have participated in the training focused upon elimination of avoidable blindness.

LNJPEH-Dumka has organized 03 school screening camps at M. P. School, Kundhit, R. K. High School, Amba and R. K. Plus Two High School, Khajuri in Kundhit block of Jamtara district. Total 461 students gone through their eye examination and 11 have received glasses free of cost. Another camp by the hospital’s Vision Centre at Saraiyahat has conducted 27 OPD, out of these 13 detected with Cataract, 07 with Refractive Error, 03 with Pterygium and 02 with Chalazion.

LNJPEH-Kajha, Gaya has organized screening camp at Tapowan village in Arai panchayat of Mora block. Total 73 villagers turned up and availed eye checkup facility. 36 among them have been identified as Cataract ridden and will meet surgery at the base hospital. 22 PwDs with eye problems have received eyeglasses and medicines free of cost.

In this sequence, Vimla Ramkrishna Bajaj Eye Hospital-Deoghar, the fourth unit of LNJPEH has picked Blind School-cum-Orphanage at Saraskunj, Jasidih for screening camp of 26 blind children. After proper checkup, it was found that 04 children’s vision can be restored after suitable treatment. VRBEH shouldered this responsibility. In the camp, other 12 persons also got their eye screening.

Honour to the Ophthalmologist of LNJP Eye Hospital on World Sight Day

12 October 2022, Ranchi: With support of Sightsavers and under the joint auspices of National Programme for Control of Blindness & Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society, Dr. Alok Kumar from LNJPEH, Bahera has been honoured on the occasion of World Sight Day.

Dr. Alok is a Senior Ophthalmologist at NBJK run LNJP Eye Hospital, Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribagh). The honour has been conferred to him because of record Cataract Surgery he performed at LNJPEH.

The felicitation ceremony was graced by the Mission Director (NHM), Dr. Krishna Kumar (Director-Health Services, GoJ), Dr. Ranjit Prasad (Nodal Officer), Mr. Vishnu C. Parida (CEO-JSLPS), Mr. Sudipto Mohanti (Regional Director, Sightsavers), Dr. (Mrs.) Arunlata Kerketta (Civil Surgeon, Ranchi), Dr. Rajmohan (Former Director, JSBCS), Mr. Jitendra Kr. Yadav, Mr. Aseem Bhattacharya (GM, Purnima Netralaya), Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Mr. Kirti Rawat (DPM, Hazaribagh) and Mr. Karunanidhi (Program Manager, LNJPEH).

Lok Samiti Celebrates Birth Anniversary of Loknayak JP

11 October 2022, Hazaribagh-Patna-Sahibganj: Lok Samiti, the organization founded by veteran freedom fighter & Sarvodaya leader Loknayak JayPrakash, has celebrated his 120th birth anniversary.

At Hazaribagh, district Lok Samiti & Jharkhand Sarvodaya Mandal called a symposium jointly on this occasion. This held at JP Memorial Site near Gandhi Ashram (Parnala Kumhartoli, Hazaribagh).

Initially some members of Lok Samiti & JSM have garlanded the statue of Mahatma Gandhi and photograph of JP. The symposium was presided by Mr. Krishna Ram Thakur (Retd. Teacher) and speakers have remembered contribution of JP to build a democratic India.

Dr. Vishwanath Azad (Coordinator, JSM) demanded from the district administration to patch up land issue for JP Memorial Site. Mr. Shankar Rana, Mr. Arvind Jha, Mr. Shamsher Alam, Mr. Shyam Kishor and others have participated in the symposium.

Also by NBJK-Patna and Sahibganj District Lok Samiti, JP birth anniversary celebration was led by Mr. Satyendra Kumar and Mr. Abdus Subhan respectively.

It’s noteworthy that Lok Samiti is an apolitical-unregistered mass organization based upon Gandhian ideology, initiated by JP on 30 June 1977 and has been continuously opposing liquor, social evils, superstition, communal hatred and sad state of women, farmers & landless people.

Inauguration of OCT Machine at VRKB Eye Hospital, Deoghar

10 October 2022, Deoghar: At NBJK run Vimla RamKrishna Bajaj Hospital, Deoghar, an Optical Coherence Tomography machine has been inaugurated by Dr. Chandrakishor Choudhary, Chief Medical Officer.

The eye hospital is moving forward to provide treatment of various eye diseases; he praised this fourth unit of LNJP Eye Hospital by NBJK. Also Mr. Kapildeo Singh (Retd. IG of Police) has graced the inaugural ceremony.

On this occasion, Mr. Girija Satish (President, NBJK) has welcomed the guests and said that an OCT machine can diagnose internal eye screen, retina, angiography, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy etc very easily with perfection to make treatment successful. As an organization, NBJK is committed to access rural-urban pockets of Jharkhand with quality & affordable eye care services, he pointed out.

Mr. Anand Abhinav (Program Director, NBJK) added that VRKBEH-Deoghar has conducted more than 3,000 Cataract Surgery and around 14,000 OPD within a year.

Mr. Sudarshan Pandey (Program Manager, NBJK), Mr. Samir Kumar Mishra (Manager, VRKBEH) and other staffs have contributed to the event.

Works with Differently Abled Children & Home-based Carers

08 October 2022, Patna-Hazaribagh: NBJK has ensured disability certificate to 186 PwDs (110 children), corrective surgery to 05 and physiotherapy to 26 children at Patna slums.

It worked with 1000 plus home-based Carers of their family members suffering from physical/mental diseases, disability, old age problem etc and linked 576 carers with housing, pension & livelihood schemes across 06 blocks of Hazaribagh district.

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New Vision Centre by LNJP Eye Hospital at Mohanpur

07 October 2022, Mohanpur, Gaya: NBJK run Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Eye Hospital, Kajha has started its second Vision Centre at Mohanpur block headquarters in Gaya district.

This will facilitate easy access of quality eye care services for needy people at remote villages.

The MOIC of Mohanpur PHC has inaugurated the Vision Centre and extended his best wishes. Some staffs of Mohanpur PHC and other local persons were present in the inaugural ceremony.

A team led by Mr. Santosh Kumar (DPM, Sightsavers-SCB program) contributed to the event.

LNJPEH-Kajha initiated Vision Centre is being supported by Standard Chartered Bank & Sightsavers.

Effective Presence throughout Covid Days

07 October 2022, Hazaribagh: Responding bravely to second horrible wave of Covid, NBJK came forward with a 30 bedded Covid Care Center with 20 oxygen beds at LNJP Eye Hospital; Bahera (Chouparan, Hazaribagh) that saved 35 lives.

Likewise 36,345 OPD from 595 Covid Care Rural Outreach Camps with free of cost health checkup, medical consultation & medicine(s) to persons with Covid like symptoms was a cruicial preventive step.

During those dangerous days, more than 400 Covid suffering persons have been provided Oximeters & Vaporizers. Around 1000 Rural Medical Practitioners have been supported with Infrared Thermometer, Oximeter and a jar of liquid Sanitizer for each.

NBJK arranged food grains for nearly 2,000 families and ensured Vaccination support to 70,000 plus people. Also 139 school children received smart phones for online classes.

The organization pays sincere gratitude to Mr. Jayant Sinha (Hon. MP, Hazaribagh), all kindhearted donors and supporters!!

NBJK promotes VOs and does advocacy …

05 October 2022, Jharkhand-Bihar: NBJK facilitates community development activities by small VOs and does advocacy over women-children safety.

During 2021-22, it supported 33 grassroots organizations & social activists from Jharkhand-Bihar to work with children, women, farmers along with inputs of organizational development and capacity building.

Through Family Counselling Centre, NBJK has reconciled 97 cases of family disputes out of 135 registered cases there.

As the sub-centre of Childline 1098, it intervened in 113 cases of children at risk and ensured their safety in four blocks of Hazaribagh district.

To promote the Gandhian thought of liquor prohibition, the organization supported people’s mobilization and 05 district level Anti-Liquor Conventions by Lok Samiti in Jharkhand.

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