Free Eye Camp For Aged People

The Daatha Foundation Trust is delighted to announce our upcoming Eye Camp, an initiative dedicated to providing quality eye care services to those in need. This camp aims to bring essential eye care to individuals who may not have access to regular medical services. Our team of qualified ophthalmologists and skilled volunteers is committed to ensuring that everyone has the opportunity for healthy vision.

Camp Highlights:

Free Vision Screenings: Our team will conduct vision checkups to detect common issues like near-sightedness, far-sightedness, and astigmatism.

Distribution of Spectacles: Free prescription glasses will be provided to those who need them, ensuring clearer vision for daily activities.

Eye Health Consultations: Experienced eye care professionals will offer consultations and advice on managing and maintaining eye health.

Treatment for Eye Conditions: Diagnosis and treatment for common eye conditions like cataracts, conjunctivitis, and dry eye will be offered, with referrals for further treatment if necessary.

Free Eye Camp For Aged People

Daatha Foundation's vision eye care camp for old age people and School children in rural and urban.

Main focus of the eye camp are

  • To provide comprehensive Free Eye care at the door steps for the rural poor and advantages people.
  • Diabetics patients are screened for diabetic retinopathy.
  • To be need cataract patients and other surgical patients undergo surgery at main hospital and they will be provided medicines. Transport, accommodation, food and spectacles are provided free of cost.
  • Daatha foundation educate the public on sight threatening eye disorders and prevention of such diseases by awareness programs. Trust conduct 'Training' programs for schools and colleges.

The Rural Mobile Teleophthalmology Camp involves the following activities

  • Planning and getting permission for camps from Government authorities
  • Conducting eye camps
  • Ophthalmologist treats the patients via teleconsultations and patients requiring surgery are brought to the main good hospitals
  • Conducting eye awareness programs

Impaired vision can make older persons dependent and vulnerable. The majority of these persons are either unaware of their condition or are unable to afford surgeries.

The majority of the population living in the rural and urban come from low income backgrounds. They face many barriers in accessing healthcare and related facilities and most are unable to pay for eye glasses or afford to buy the lens in cataract operations.

Help Ageour areas came forward to support the older persons living in our areas with a mobile eye camp. The qualified and trained personnel of Help Age tested the eyesight of participants, provided free reading glasses where necessary, provided free prescription glasses, provided guidance on proper eye care and directed those who required cataract surgeries to their eye hospital in certified hospitals.

This Eye Hospital carries out free cataract surgeries and provides the lens free of charge. Forsix months once the mobile eye care unit, a converted bus, travelled within the city conducting eye camps in seven pre-selected venues. The bus was fully equipped with facilities to screen eye-sight with a team of professions. The Elders’ Committees of each division coordinated the event while the participate aged peoples of each division provided space in their temples to conduct the camps. Urban and rural areas elders benefited from the first round of camps.