Free Eye Camps
Al-Ain Free Eye Camps
This falls under our core activity. Our first camp was over 2 days. It was held in Sehnsa, Azad Kashmir on 28th & 29th August 2003, during which we examined and treated about 1500+ poor and deserving eye patients and out of them 132 patients had cataract extractions with Intra-ocular Lens Implantation free of charge. We also provided free sight glasses to almost 200 patients and made 30 pairs of glasses to order for poor students, youngsters and middle-aged poor patients.
Our aims for the next 5 years
- Continue to perform cataract removal operations for low-income families free of charge in remote and far-flung areas using our facilities at the Hope Hospital.
- Continue with our plan to enhance the primary & secondary eye care facilities at our core Hope Hospital project.
- Introducing telemedicine at Hope Hospital to allow us to engage with the UK based Physicians, to assist with disseminating of good practices in Opthalmology care at Hope Hospital
- Reducing the number of people suffering from avoidable blindness in the many thousands by providing good quality eye care services and building human resource capabilities within low-income families to support low vision services and eye care.
Al-Ain & Change and Development (CAD) organised a number of Free Eye Camp in a poor suburb of Bangladesh.
Annual Health Mela at Hope Hospital with Free Medical & Eye Camp
- 1040 Patients Screened
- 770 Patients provided with a health check
- 89 Provided with reading glasses
- 18 Cataract surgeries
- Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khan MNA Chakwal-I
- Fauzia Behram MNA Chakwal-LS
- Choudary Saliq Hussain MNA Chakwal-II
- Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfraz MPA Chakwal-I (Minister of Punjab for higher education)
- Sardar Aftab Akbar - MPA Chakwal-I
What is Al-Ain trying to achieve?
Al-Ain is seeking to play its role to help the global initiative for the elimination of avoidable blindness. Four-Fifths of the magnitude of blindness is caused by an eye condition which can be prevented or treated. The resources available are insufficient to tackle the problem particularly in low-income countries like Pakistan where 9 out of 10 of the worlds blind people live in. There is a lack of trained eye personnel, medicines, ophthalmic equipment, eye care facilities and patient referral systems. This is preventing the individuals with vision loss from realising their full potential. We started the organisation with some broad long-term aims which span over several years. We focused on developing a facility in the shape of the Hope Hospital in a remote village of Pakistan. We have successfully achieved this target with a functioning eye care facility at the Hope Hospital with trained personnel, distributing eye medicines, equipped with high-quality ophthalmic equipment, catering for both primary and secondary eye care facilities and a mechanism to refer low-income patients to tertiary facilities.
Government Responsibility
The government have the responsibility to provide good health care facilities to every member of society. Unfortunately, in most underdeveloped countries like Pakistan, health care is not providing adequate funding to properly support every member of society. With this reason in mind, we and along with a lot of other welfare organisations work with these under privileged people to prevent and relieve sickness. Our organisation is mainly working for the elimination of avoidable blindness, with whatever funds generate from our commercial activities and our supporters provide.
Our Free Eye Campus
The second camp was organised at Tarha Pai Oggee, Mansehra, N.W.F.P Pakistan on the 6th September 2003 during which we examined and treated about 500 poor and deserving patients during a single day and 42 cataract patients went on our cataract list, out of which 20 patients had free cataract extraction with Intra ocular Lens Implantation free of charge. We also provided free sight glasses to about 200 patients.
The third camp was organised at Pubbi, Peshawar, N.W.F.P Pakistan on the 17th March 2004 during which we examined and treated more than 500 poor and deserving patients during a single day and 32 cataract patients went onto our cataract list. We also provided free sight glasses to almost 250 patients.
How Al-Ain is supporting communities in remote areas
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