Navbharat Jagriti Kendra has started Glaucoma clinic in its eye hospital situated at Bahera Village of Chauparan block. Now the patients suffering from Glaucoma or Kala Motiya will be treated in this clinic established at Loknayak Jai Prakash Eye Hospital with support of Aditya Birla Financial Services. Though the clinic was started on March 16th but now it is ready with the facilities of all related tests and treatment to common people at subsidised rate.
Gandharv Gaurav, Director, LNJPEH, said that during last four months more than 100 patients were treated here successfully. The Clinic offers specialized care on 4 days, Tuesday to Friday, weekly in between 9 am-1 pm.
Talking about the disease he said that the Eye pressure damages optic nerve and hinders images from retina to brain, black spots come inside vision field and we become blind. Since the process is quite slow and painless, one may not notice the disease easily and if once visual loss occurs due to nerve damage, it is irreparable.
The symptoms include severe eye pain, blurred vision, squinting or blinking of eye, change in color of iris, headache, rainbow haloes around lights etc. and factors like age, family history and severe anemia add to the risk of Glaucoma, Gaurav informed.Since there is no charitable treatment of Glaucoma available at Chouparan and within radius of 100 km, LNJPEH run Glaucoma Clinic is proving its worth for poor patients of Hazaribagh and adjoining districts.
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