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1.16 LAKH EYE PATIENTS TESTED IN SEWA SADAN |
As many as 1.16 lakh eye patients were examined and 12,534 patients’ eyes were operated upon in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital during calendar year 2015.
These include 4,463 paid cataract surgeries, 74... |
General |
06/Jan/2016 |
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Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’ |
There is now a free iOS app that enables the blind, visually impaired, and color blind, understand their surroundings through object and color recognition. Optimised for the iPhone, iPod touch and... |
General |
06/Jan/2016 |
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The bionic eye changing a woman's life |
At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a clinical trial is taking place in which six patients who have had little or no sight for many years are having a cutting-edge "bionic eye" implanted in an... |
General |
05/Jan/2016 |
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Louis Braille’s birth anniversary: In a first, visually-impaired man reads news on AIR Pune |
IT WAS a routine broadcast schedule for the listeners of All India Radio (AIR) on Monday morning, when presenter Manoj Kshirsagar started the regional news bulletin at 7.10 am in his distinctive... |
General |
05/Jan/2016 |
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World Braille Day: 9 facts about the Braille Code and the man behind it |
Louis Braille, the developer of Braille Code, was born on January 4 in 1809. The day is celebrated as World Braille Day.
An educator from France who had accidentally lost his eyesight at the age of... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Technology beyond Braille has come in handy for many |
While hailing the revolutionary discovery of Louis Braille as being a fundamental necessity that helped them overcome barriers, some of the visually challenged professionals in the city feel that... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Bengaluru’s first industrial Braille press in HSR Layout |
The city is all set to get its own industrial-scale Braille press in HSR Layout, which is also set to print the first Braille magazine in the State.
Mitra Jyothi, an NGO working for the visually... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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WAITING FOR YEARS TO GET A BRAILLE EMBOSSER |
Computerised Braille embosser may have replaced the manual Braille typewriter bringing down the laborious work of producing a Braille book.
But at the State Central Library at Cubbon Park, armed... |
General |
04/Jan/2016 |
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Taking eye care to every corner of rural India |
Jayant Sriram explores the thriving social entrepreneurship model of Aravind Eye Care
here is a documentary video that is shown to visitors at the Aravind Eye Care headquarters in Madurai as a... |
General, Medical |
31/Dec/2015 |
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STATE HAS 12.44L DIFFERENTLY-ABLED PERSONS |
Chief Secretary AP Padhi visited and reviewed the activities of the newly-formed Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disability Department on Wednesday.
Department Secretary Saswat Mishra... |
Achievements, General, Policy News, Education and Employment |
31/Dec/2015 |
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