Seeing is Believing

1. Cataract Free Zone: The project has taken up challenge of declaring districts of Sabarkantha and Aravali in Gujarat as Cataract Free Zones. To achieve this target, project has taken support of Samata Vikas Charitable Trust and local volunteers. Thanks to our donors, till 10th January, 2016, the following target has been achieved:

a. Outdoor Patients: 21839

b. Eye Surgeries: 1909

c. Spectacles: 7115

d. Special Surgeries: 203

e. Total Expenditure: US $ 52984

By the time, this target is achieved, about 5000 persons with be operated and 50000 persons would be checked. A very ambitious but achievable target.

2.Statistical report of Blind People’s Association-Bareja Hospital for the year – 2016

                                  (1^st of December TO 29^th of February - 2016)

S.N.   Name of procedure    Number of Surgeries

1        Cataract                            2896

2        AGS (Glaucoma)                   32

3        Chelezion                             13

4        Keratoplasty                           0

5        Posterior Capsular Opacity   189

6        Ptryrisium                             46

7        Squint                                    1

        Total 3177 (Three Thousand One Hundred Seventy Seven Only)

The project has also taken up the challenge of providing quality eye care and eye surgery services completely free of cost to non-affording persons and at affordable cost to others. In today's world of expansive health care, the Project is providing high quality eye surgery services at US $ 30 only

A few years before the organization launched a very ambitious result oriented campaign "Cataract Free Sabarkantha". This campaign aims at providing services of eye health to complete population of tribal districts of Sarbarkantha and Aaravali. This campaign is completely supported by donors in the USA and India, specially donors belonging to these districts itself. The whole campaign is being managed by the Office Bearers and volunteers of the Samta Vikas Charitable Trust established by people originally belonging to these districts only.

A mega function on honouring donors and volunteers of this campaign is being held at Modasa as per these details, "

Samata Day celebrations and eye camp at Modasa at 10 a.m. on 10 January, 2016". Any donor of Seeing-is-believing if happens to be in this part of world is most welcome to join. This event will further strenthen the project.

Statistical report of the project - 1^st of September TO 3oth of November - 2015

S.N

Name of the procedure Number of Surgeries

1  Cataract                                      1962

2  AGS (Glaucoma)                            17

3  Chelezion                                          1

4  Keratoplasty                                      1

5  Posterior Capsular Opacity (PCO)   66

6  Ptryrisium                                         26

7  Squint                                                 1

Total                                                2074   (Two Thousand Seventy Four Only)

During   1^st September to 30^th November, 2015 a total number of 2074 patients were undergone surgery at Navalbhai and Hiraba eye hospital, a unit of Blind People Association, Bareja out of which 1962 have undergone surgery for cataract which is the msot leading cause of blindness in India.

During the reporting period (1^st September 2015 to 30^th of November 2015) 42 outreach programs have been organized in remote locations of Gujarat where 6524 patients were provided treatment at their doorstep and among them 742 patients were identified as those with cataract and 397 have undergone surgeries at Bareja hospital.    

Vision center is running on regular Basis at Vatrak Hospital, Modasa Annpurana Trust, Laskari Hospital, Ahmedabad and Varsoda which provided treatment to 1288 patients for various eye problems.

Megha eye checkup camp has been organized in 9 locations of Ahmedabad with the support of Arrez Khambata Benevolent Trust, Gruh Finance and other corporate.   

11 General Health check up camps were conducted in the district of Ahmedabad and Surendranagar with the support from CAIRN and Help Age India.

23 school screening camps organized in different talukas of Ahmedabad and Dholka with the support from District Blindness Control Society of which more than 10000 students having refractive correction have been provided spectacle  free of cost.

We need to achieve the target of 12,000 cataract surgeries during the current year.