Cataract Camps
The primary purpose of the outreach is to identify patients’ of curable blindness. The outreach program focuses mainly on making eye care facilities accessible to many poor patients as well as overall who cannot afford eye care due to their small budgets. It also focuses on making eye care available for isolated communities, which were suffer from poor infrastructure, and a low-density population, which prohibits the lack of eye awareness and facilities.
Diagnostic Camps (General)
These proposed camp activities were started with the objective to provide a facility in and around Mumbai to deal with eye problems especially for the deprived class of the society. With a view to help the under privileged community, Hospital has been doing cataract surgery FREE OF COST including travelling facility to hospital, Pre-operative investigations, food and stay for the patients coming from proposed camps conducted with the help of NGOs.
With a view to help the under privileged community, our Hospital has been doing cataract surgery FREE OF COST including Pre-operative investigations, food and stay for the patients coming from proposed camps conducted with the help of NGOs. Under this scheme the NGOs or sponsoring agencies have to register their names with the hospital and fix the date for the camp and thereafter Hospital camp team will examine the patients at the campsite. The patients selected for surgery for surgery are brought to the hospital by the hospital MINI Bus and after the Surgery they are commuted back to their base camp site free of cost. Regular follow up done by hospital as well as NGO for drop out patients from the camp.
Activities in Diagnostic Camps
Registration
Vision Check Up by the team
Examination by Doctors
Refraction by Optometrist
Spectacle counter (subsidized rates)
Counseling
Facilities provided to the cataract patients from Camps
Free of cost check up by the qualified and experienced Clinical team at their door step
Free travelling facility from Camp site to Hospital and commute back to camp site after surgery
Free accommodation in hospital during the surgery
Pre – operative tests including HIV, Diabetics, HbsAg
Free cataract surgery with IOL implant
Provided post operative medicines
Post operative follow ups
Subsidized spectacles as per choice
Diagnostic Camps (General) Statistics
| ACTIVITIES | No. of Eye Camps | No. of Patients screened | No. of Cataract detected | No. of cataract surgeries done |
| 1997 – 1998 | 29 | 561 | 297 | 297 |
| 1998 – 1999 | 35 | 7890 | 834 | 834 |
| 1999 – 2000 | 159 | 13408 | 1544 | 1316 |
| 2000 – 2001 | 116 | 16751 | 2121 | 1838 |
| 2001 – 2002 | 87 | 10302 | 2166 | 1852 |
| 2002 – 2003 | 128 | 12968 | 2751 | 2373 |
| 2003 – 2004 | 155 | 15126 | 4286 | 3023 |
| 2004 – 2005 | 144 | 14028 | 4155 | 3347 |
| 2005 – 2006 | 164 | 17089 | 5123 | 3318 |
| 2006 – 2007 | 233 | 21483 | 6209 | 4358 |
| 2007 – 2008 | 243 | 23992 | 6602 | 4195 |
| 2008 - 2009 | 238 | 24905 | 5321 | 3312 |
| 2009 - 2010 | 254 | 23711 | 5390 | 3426 |
| 2010 - 2011 | 207 | 19731 | 4344 | 2903 |
| 2011 - 2012 | 161 | 19239 | 4079 | 2651 |
| 2012 - 2013 | 189 | 15576 | 4390 | 2750 |
| 2013 - 2014 | 183 | 16315 | 4840 | 2506 |
| TOTAL | 2725 | 273075 | 64452 | 44299 |
Performance of Eye Camp from April 2013 - March 2014
| Sr. No. | Name of The N.G.O. | Total No. of Visits | Total No. of Patients Screened | Total No. of Patients Detected Cataract | Total No. of Patient Operated Free |
| 1 | Primary Eye Care Centre Shahapur | 47 | 3115 | 1449 | 781 |
| 2 | Shree BallaleshwarDevsthan, Pali | 9 | 821 | 432 | 288 |
| 3 | Smt.LeenataB.Rele Charitable Trust, Alibaug | 12 | 1102 | 662 | 420 |
| 4 | Gram Vikas Arogya Seva bhavi Sanstha, Karjat | 22 | 995 | 369 | 255 |
| 5 | Shree Hariharputra Bhajan Samaj, Chembur | 9 | 499 | 276 | 156 |
| 6 | Khushiya Seva Sanstha, Worli | 10 | 727 | 263 | 135 |
| 7 | Centre For The Study of Social Change, Bandra | 4 | 222 | 59 | 27 |
| 8 | Sant. NirankariMandal, Mumbai | 6 | 962 | 139 | 51 |
| 9 | Mahaveer International, Santacruz | 11 | 1455 | 343 | 151 |
| 10 | Vasundhara charitable Trust, Palghar | 8 | 277 | 57 | 13 |
| 11 | Raje Group, Wada | 10 | 165 | 20 | 10 |
| 12 | Mumbai Eye Care Campaign, Mumbai | 619 | |||
| 13 | Other Camps | 36 | 5975 | 771 | 218 |
| Total | 184 | 16315 | 4840 | 3124 |
