Vision Care Centres

Vision Care Center is a small kiosk established in the remote villages where required facilities are created to provide primary eye care services to people. The Centre is operated by an ophthalmic assistant who will be screening patients and refer to the base hospitals for further treatment. These facilities will motivate the people to seek earlier treatment for their vision problems, allowing them to reintegrate back into the workforce instead of becoming visually impaired. This is a new pattern of proactively seeking eye care before it is too late. The patients who seek care at these Centers, either they are fully treated on-site or are referred to the base hospital for further treatment, usually for surgery or advanced investigations. In this category, community outreach aims to provide a better health care facility to the people who have no access and awareness of such services. It is providing eye care service to eliminate needless blindness at the patients’ doorstep. Community outreach in eye care is a practice of conducting eye camps involving the local community as partners, thereby creating ownership among the community for its sustainability.

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The community outreach activities guides about the pre-camp activities like monthly plan and schedule, to contact the key person, explaining the about the camp procedures, suggest a suitable date and camp site, to give standard format of notice and poster for publicity, periodical meetings, transport management etc. and the camp-day activities such as to make ready registers, logistics, instructing the volunteers, collect patients, preparing medical records, arranging food, etc. and the post-camp activities such as arranging transport to take the patients to the hospital, admitting and treatment of patients, to draw camp reports etc. In the last twenty years of community services, the Organization has gained the confidence across the communities and these communities are willing to be a part of our interventions and also extend their support to reach out more people.