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FREE Eye Clinic Opens at Hope Hospital
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Hope Hospital’s FREE Eye Clinic
- went live in June 2005
With a Mission Statement.........
"To provide free eye treatment and ophthalmology care to those with few resources and also to take these services to areas with little or no access to regular health care"
The aim of this clinic to bridge the gulf between the high incidences of eye related problems, due to high intensity of smoke endured, for over long period of time while cooking using dried wood and animal dropping, which is commonly used by these poor people in Pakistan.
The aims of the clinic are to cater inadequacy of medical facilities by:
- Providing patients with free medication as well as laboratory and surgical facilities with appropriate state of the art.
- Disseminating information in both urban and rural areas about eye related diseases and preventive measures.
- Collaborating with other welfare organisations to run outreach programmes.
- To arrange eye camps or eye clinics, where economically disadvantaged people can come for free eye care, in deprived and far flung areas and in other developing countries.
- Provide financial support to an eye camp, eye and other multidisciplinary hospitals or cataract surgery or other medical projects.
- Prevention and control of blindness by providing standard and sustainable eye care services in Pakistan and other developing countries.