Basic Health Checkup-cum-Eye Screening Camp

05 April 2022, Hazaribagh: With support of Sightsavers, Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society and Blackstone, NBJK has organized a Basic Health Checkup-cum-Eye Screening for staff of JSLPS at Paradise Hall Dakbangla.

This ensured 198 OPD, identified 65 with refractive errors as well as other patients of fever, cough & cold, sugar and blood pressure. Glasses have been prescribed and medicines were given to the needys.

Mr. Satish Girija (Secretary, NBJK), Dr. Jitendra Kumar (Sr. Prog. Manager, Sightsavers), Mr. Kirti Rawat (DPM, Sightsavers), Mrs. Shanti Marandi (DPM, JSLPS), Ms. Sarita Kumari (CBM, JSLPS) and 201 workers of JSLPS have participated in the event.

Dr. Jitendra Kumar mentioned about mission & vision of Sigtsavers, expressed commitment of cataract blindness backlog free Hazaribagh district and informed about almost completion of Covid vaccination of PwDs in the district. Mr. Satish Girija has thanked Sightsavers, JSLPS and Blackstone for the endeavor and said that the campaign to make Hazaribagh free from cataract has been started in Katkamsandi & Chauparan blocks.

Dr. P. R. Prasad, Dr. Mukesh Kumar, Mrs, Neelam Khalkho, Mrs. Kunti Kumari, Mr. Mohsin Raza, Mr. Shivam Kumar, Mr. Ravindra Sinha, Mr. Raju Rajak and Mr. Sujit Mishra have comprised the medical team.