Cataract operation
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 23 2013 :
In continuation to the Blindness Control Programme under the project "Netra Jyoti" of its Corporate Social Responsibility-Community Development (CSR-CD) Scheme, Loktak Power Station, NHPC Ltd has started conducting free cataract operations in collaboration with Shija Hospital and Research Institute (SHRI), Imphal.
According to a press release of Loktak Power Station, NHPC Ltd, the seventh batch of free cataract operation was held yesterday at SHRI and eight cataract cases were operated successfully.
Free medicine, subsidized cost of operation with foldable IOL, transportation and fooding for the patients were provided by NHPC Ltd.
Free spectacles will be distributed to the cataract operated cases.
So far 51 cataract cases have been operated successfully in seven batches during the current financial year, it added.