Cataract operation
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 05 2014:
Free cataract operation for seven patients and free ptyregium operation for three patients were performed on August 3 by Sky Eye Care Foundation in association with Manipur State Blindness Control Society under NPCB, Government of India.
The 10 patients who underwent surgical operations were selected from amongst 310 patients examined at the Free Eye and Heart Camp held at Thoubal on July 27, conveyed a press release.
The patients were provided free transportation from Thoubal to Sky Hospital and back, free intraocular lens and free medicine.
Sky Eye Care Foundation would continue providing free eye care operations for the remaining 21 cataract and eight ptyregium patients in the next three weeks, it added.