Bringing New
Light to Eyes
Promoting awareness is the major part of this programme wherein the trained paramedical staff conducts daily awareness camps in the villages. Subsequently, these patients are screened by a team of ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians on a fortnightly basis at their door step in their village and are provided with the primary eye care services. However, those in need of a cataract surgery are immediately brought to Mumbai and operated at Bachooali Hospital, The to & fro of the patients to Mumbai is completely taken care by IBF.
Thus this model addresses the barriers such as cost, distance, transportation, lack of quality facility in rural & tribal areas and provides a comprehensive solution to the socially and economically marginalized community of our society.
