Cataract detection camp
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 02 2016:
National Programme for Control of Blindness (NPCB), Thoubal, under the National Health Mission, conducted a one-day free cataract detection camp at Lilong PHC today.
District Nodal Officer, NPCB Thoubal, Dr Ksh Memcha Devi said NPCB has been conducting free cataract detection camps at different places since April this year.
All the patients who have been identified with cataract will undergo free correction surgery at JNIMS Hospital, she added.
Altogether 342 cataract cases have been identified so far out of which 202 have undergone free correction surgery at JNIMS Hospital.
Today's camp identified 31 cases of cataract.
They will undergo correction surgery at JNIMS on October 6, she added.