Shija for comprehensive eye care
Source: Hueiyen News Service

Imphal, April 23 2015 : Shija Eye Care Foundation (SECF), a unit of Shija Healthcare & Research Institute, has successfully re-engineered the processes and systems to make the services inclusive for all.

This initiative has been taken up in view of the global initiative of Vision 2020 – eliminating avoidable blindness in collaboration with LAICO (Lion's Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology) and Aravind Eye Care Systems, Madurai, a release informed on Thursday.

There will be a 'subsidised section' of the ophthalmology department of Shija Hospitals which will cater comprehensive eye care needs to those who require clinical and surgical treatments for avoidable and preventable blindness.

OPD consultation is from 8 am to 3 pm on all days (except Sundays) .

Shija Eye Care Foundation conducts various community based peripheral outreach camps in rural and tribal areas.

More than 7000 patients have undergone free cataract surgeries.

The service area extends to Mizoram, Nagaland, Assam and Myanmar.

A total of 179 patients were provided free cataract surgeries in the second Mission Myanmar.

As part of the hospital's community service, population based Retinopathy screening camps are also done.

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