Free eye camp to be held in Vellore on Sunday
VELLORE: The Vellore District Jaggery Merchants Charitable Trust, Vellore District Blindness Prevention Society and Arvind Eye Hospital, Puducherry, will be organising the 6th Annual Free Eye Screening Camp at Rangalaya Thirumana Mandapam in Gandhinagar near here from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday.
Participants will be tested for cataract, diabetes, retinopathy, glaucoma, myopia, long-sightedness and corneal ulcer, while children's problems will also be assessed. Those found to have cataract will be taken to Arvind Eye Hospital, Puducherry, the same day for free cataract surgery. They will be provided free transport facility to go to Puducherry, and free food and accommodation at the hospital. They will also be provided intra-ocular lens and medicines free of cost.
Durai Murugan, Law Minister, and S. Jagathrakshakan, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, will inaugurate the camp. G. Viswanathan, VIT University Chancellor, will provide free spectacles, sponsored by the VIT University.
The Sri Sathya Sai Seva Samithis in Vellore will be offering their voluntary services at the camp.
A total of 8,985 persons have so far participated in the annual camps conducted by the Vellore District Jaggery Merchants Charitable Trust from 2004, while eye surgery has been performed on 1,279 persons.