SKY Hospital conducts Free Cataract Operations
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, August 05 2014:
SKY Eye Care Foundation in collaboration with Manipur State Blindness Control Society under the sponsorship of National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB), Government of India performed free cataract operations for 7 patients and ptyregiusm operation for 3 patients on August 3 last, a release informed.
The patients were from among the 310 ophthalmic patients who had turned up during the Free Eye and Heart Camp held at Thoubal on July 27 last.
Patients were provided with free transportation to and from Thoubal to SKY Hospital, besides providing free intraocular lens (IOL), and free medicines, the release added.
SKY Eye Care Foundation will continue to provide free eye operations for the remaining 21 cataract patients and 8 ptyregiusm patients in the next 3 weeks, it added.