Seeing is Believing

Landmark Achievement: The Project went for a mega expansion of its geographical coverage by establishing 3 Vision Centers.

1.  Vision Centre 1 at Varsoda The Trustees of Varundavan Dham, Varsoda approached the hospital to establish a Vision Centre at Varsoda, Varsoda – Badpuda Road near Mahudi. Thanks to efforts of Mr. Kanjibhai Chaudhary, Chairperson of the Vikas Trust that this centre Vision Centre has been established 85 Kms. away from the hospital. It will provide health care services to the patients from Mansa Taluka of district Gandhinagar.

 2. Vision Centre 2 at Delhi Darwaja, Ahmedabad: This Vision Centre has been established in the Laskari General Hospital, Delhi Darwana, near Dariapur. This Centre has been established with the support of Mr. Bhanubhai, a leading philanthropist who also runs the company that produces Omani Inter-ocular Lense. Laskari hospital was established almost 100 years before to cater to the health needs of poor patients from the walled city area of Ahmedabad. As lot of patients coming to this hospital has eye ailments, the Trustees of the Hospital approached the project to establish this vision centre.

 3. Vision Centre 3: Vatrak: As reported earlier, the project and the Samata Vikas Charitable Trust (SVCT) have taken challenge of rendering Sabarkantha District as a Cataract Free District. To expedite the process further and achieve this target, The SVCT has decided to establish the SVCT VISION CENTER at the Shri K K SHAH Sabarkantha Arogaya Mandal , Vatrak with effect from 1st June, 2014. The Project will receive support from local community of Sabarkantha District and Non-Resident Indian settles in the USA. Mr. Ramesh Shah, Mr. Rasik Shah and Mr. Vijay Shah, all from district of Sabarkantha are coordinating the work. Mr. P K Lahiri, Ex-Chief Secretary of Government of Gujarat and now the Chairperson of Vatrak Hospital has extended his full support to this initiative.

Statistical report of Blind People’s Association-Bareja Hospital for the year – 2014

(January 2014-March - 2014)

S.N   Name of the procedure    Number of Surgeries

1          Cataract                                             2487

2          AGS (Glaucoma)                                    7

3          Chelezion                                               21

4          Keratoplasty                                            0

5          Posterior Capsular Opacity (PCO)  257

6         Ptryrisium                                                47

7         Squint                                                        2

                       Total                                        2821

During   January 2014 to March 2014 a total number of 2821 (including 2487 for cataract surgeries) patients were operated at the eye hospital, a unit of Blind People Association, Bareja.  During this period, 51 outreach programs were organized in remote locations of Gujarat where 5483 patients were provided treatment at their doorstep and out of them 1742 patients were identified as having cataract and 970 had undergone surgeries at Bareja hospital.    

Mega eye checkup camp was  organized at Modasa, Vadagam, Gabat with the support of Samata Vikash Trust and at Isanpur with the support of Areez Khambata Benevolent Trust.