Seeing is Believing

Dear Donors & Well Wishers,

Greetings from BPA India!!

I hope this progress report will find you in Great Health and Spirit. 

I must say our organisation has played a very significant and important role in the second wave of Covid 19. The second wave of covid 19 was more dreadful than the first wave. It was a really difficult time for us. This time, our employees and frontline workers were also affected and hospitalized for treatment purposes. Unfortunately, we lost our two senior employees due to covid 19, and others are very well recovered on time after few days of hospitalization. 

Our project team did not stop working even in the second wave of Covid 19, and we have had distributed around 38,789 Ration kits to poor families of people with disabilities in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Odhisa. During the second wave of Covid 19, our hospital team was on call for providing services to the patients who were covid 19 affected. We have started Oxygen Concentration Bank to provide support to the patients who required Oxygen Concentration machines. This machine was provided without any charges to poor disabled people. 

We have arranged  vaccine drive for people with disabilities, and more than 570 people with disabilities had got first vaccine shot in this vaccination drive. We have also arranged vaccine drive for our staff, volunteers. 

Seeing is Believing Project has also made very significant progress during this reporting period. Due to second wave of covid 19, and Govt. guidelines, the outreach camps were not organized. however, we were able to reach out poor people in remote areas through our vision centers. During this period, 24,068 patients attended OPD services, 13213 patients were given spectacles, and 1687 patients were provided free cataract surgeries, and 19 Keretoplasty surgeries were done. Our Bhuj Satelite hospital has also made very good progress, we have now reached to 60 surgeries every week in this satellite hospital. 

We have started two more vision centers; one is Matar in Kheda District, and another is in Dholka, Ahmedabad district. These two vision centers have increased our hospital reach, and expanded our coverage. 

We are very delighted to share with you that New Comprehensive Eye Care Services will be set up in Bayad, Arravali District in Gujarat. For that, we will construct new hospital in Bayad in association with Vatrak Hospital. The design of upcoming hospital is attached with this report. This hospital will cater services to poor tribal people live in Gujarat and bordering state Rajasthan. We request you to support us in this new venture of hospital. 

With this note, I would like to share a very interesting story of Himmatbhai. He had suddenly realized that his vision in left eye somehow affected, was blured. His left eye was red, and watery eyes. He came to our eye hospital for diagnosis and treatment purposes. He was diagnosed Pseudophakic Bullous Keratopathy with gross descements membrane tear was diagnosed. He had two cataract surgeries earlier. He was advised for DESK (Descements Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty). He undergone for this surgery at our hospital, and his vision recover and earlier symptoms like watery eyes and redness in eye is also disappeared. He was so happy with treatment, and thank the donors who sponsored his surgery. 

We are again very grateful to you for your support, encouragment that enables us to continue work in difficult time also. We are looking forward for such support and encouragment in future also. 

Thanking you. 

Dear Donors and Well Wishers,

Greetings from India!!

I hope that this email finds you and your loved ones very safe and healty. We are witnessing a very hard time for last one year, we hope and pray that this time shall pass away very soon. In this difficult time, our team is committed to provide services to the human being. We are very happy to share with you that during the last one year we have been supporting poor people with disabilities and poor people live in rural areas by give them dry ration kits under stop hunger project. Our hospital team has been reaching out to poor people at door step and provides the kit. We have distributed 29000 Ration kits to poor people with disabilities in Gujarat. 

We have continued to provide our eye care services to the poor patients. We were not able to organize mega camps as there was a Government of India guidelines not to organize camps to aviod public gathering. Hence, we have tried to provide maximum services at our vision centers. We have 12 vision centers which are located at different locations. The patients come to the vision center, they avail basic services such as diagnosis, glassess and medicines. For further treatment and surgeries, they are taken to the Bareja Hospital In the first quarter of year 2021, we have successfully conducted more than 4000 surgeries. Now, we have facilities in our Bhuj Center where we can conduct cataract surgeries. I am very happy to share some of the life changing stories with you. 

Popatbhai Can Now See Again

A patient named Mr Popat came to Porecha Eye hospital, managed by Blind People's Association, with severe pain in his left eye and complaining of loss of sight in that eye. On examination it was discovered that the transparent part of the eye- the cornea was perforated and there was also a cgorneal ulcer . There was also a thorn inside it which had caused the coloured part of the eye, the iris tissue to prolapse with formation of pseudocornea. Such injuries are common people work in fields where there are thorns and people lose their sight. Popatbhai was advised therapeutic keratoplasty with reconstruction of ocular surface under local anaesthesia, and the same was done.  Mr/ Popat is smiling now as is now free of pain and is regaining his vision. Many many congratulations team BPA Bareja and Dr. Sumit for the wonderful work.

PATIENT FROM NORTH INDIA FINDS TREATMENT AT BPA HOSPITAL

A Patient named MR Chandrashekar came to our Porecha Eye hospital, managed by Blind Peoples Association. His complaints were.Adherent leucoma and cataract in his right eye. He is a resident of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, where he visited several hospitals and took multiple treatments. He was not happy with the outcome as he couldn't see properly. He came to Ahmdeabad and came to hear about Porecha Eye Hospital. He was checked by a team of welcoming and positive team,The Corneal surgeon did optical keratoplastyalong with surgery with with intra ocular lens implantation When he opened his eyes after surgery, he almost went crazy with happiness!!! He is going back to his city with a smiling face to resume his work.. 

We are really blessed that we have donors and friends like you. Your continious and generous support enable and encourage us to provide more services to poor patient. We have planned to set up one more eye care hospital in Vatrak town joins the border of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The upcoming hospital would provide services to poor tribal people.  We have already started a save sight campagian in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. 

We request you to provide us continous support, and become our recurring donors. Please share this report with your friends and family members and motivate them to become a supporter like you. 

With Warm Regards