Seeing is Believing

Dear Donors, Well Wishers!!

Greetings from India!!

I trust that you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. This is a very tough time for us, but we hope for the best. We shall overcome from this difficult time. I am here to share some positive story that motivates all of us.

As you are aware that the greatest need in this pandemic Covid19 is for good health facilities. In the time of this terrible disease, people prefer to treat and operate on other types of disease. One of the reasons is that they are afraid of getting an infection from the hospital. But if they do not get high-quality treatment with all precautionary measures at the right time, their illness can become serious, and life-threatening. Therefore, for such quality facilities to be available to them, the project team has been constantly striving, and facilitating.

Sameer  is 22 years young man from Ahmedabad had a very good life, was living life with full joy and hope. Suddenly, he had trauma with stone in his left eye. He was very depressed, as he lost his vision. He had been to various hospitals for the treatment and operation. He did not get any satisfactory and positive response, and where he got a response, but the operation cost was very high, that he could not afford. His family uncle advised him to BPA Eye Hospital at Bareja. He came with the hope of the hospital. He was diagnosed at cornea OPD, open globe injury with corneal tear iris tissue prolapse.

He was advised to go for an open globe injury repair under LA. He was given an offer that whatever he can afford, he would pay. He was very happy and relaxed with such overwhelming response of the hospital staff. The surgery was done successfully, but after 3-4 months thick posterior subcapsular cataract development started developing and his vision got deteriorated.

Further, he was then advised cataractous lens extraction and intraocular lens implantation which was done without any charges. Samir had light perception after six months, in his last follow up his 6/6 vision is restored. Samir thanks the donors, and hospital staff who worked so hard in this COVID 19 situation, and given him a new life.

In this COVID 19 situation, the hospital and 9 vision centres has continued to provide their services. We did not have to organize any outreaching camps, keeping in mind the social distance norms.

During the reporting quarter, a total number of 894 patients have undergone surgery at Porecha Eye Hospital, An unit of Blind People Association, Bareja among which 894 were undergoing surgery for cataract the leading cause of blindness.

During the reporting period, no outreach programs have been organized keeping in view the COVID- 19 conditions in Gujarat.  

Mahemada vision centre started on 8th of June 2020 with the support from Wagh Bakri Tea group.

The hospital team also work for relief work. The hospital team has distributed 2500 Ration kits to poor disabled persons at their doorstep. The team has covered more than 300 villages. Training on Glaucoma management done for the clinical staff of Bareja on 14^th of April 2020.

We have plan to set up a new Multi Speciality Eye Care hospital in Tribal area Gujarat, and this construction and equipment cost of this new hospital is  2,80,000$. We request you to share this appeal with your friends and family members. We are very thankful to you for your sustained support to this project, and looking forward to strong engagement in future. 

Thanking you