Free cataract operations conducted
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 23 2014 :
Loktak Power Station conducted 301 cataract operations successfully during the financial year 2013-14 under its project Netra Jyoti of CSR-SD scheme and free spectacles were also distributed to the patients after operating both the eyes.
A press release issued by Dr KK Singh, Senior Deputy Medical Officer, Medical Department, Loktak Power Station said today that continuing with the project for the welfare of the elderly persons suffering blindness due to cataract in the current financial year, operations on 6 Cataract cases were done successfully at Shija Hospitals and Research Institute, Imphal on May 22 .
Free medicines, subsidised cost of operation with foldable IOL, transportation and fooding for the patients were provided by NHPC Ltd, the release added.
It also appealed to elderly persons having difficulty in seeing distant objects to contact the doctors at Project Hospital, Loktak Power Station, Kom Keirap in order to avail of the opportunity for free cataract operation.