title: Massive eye relief project in India.
abstract: In India, nearly 1.5% of the population is blind due to cataracts, most of them mature. The facilities available for eye operations are not adequate to restore sight to all these people, so eye camps are conducted all over India. A massive eye camp project begun in June 1972 fixed a goal of 100,000 cataract operations a year in the eye camps. About 50,000 cataract operations were done in that period. Most of the people who receive operations are poor and they are provided with free surgery, medicine, food, and glasses. This project will continue until enough eye hospitals are built to accommodate all the patients in our locality. The other states in India are planning similar programs.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001766:Blindness / Q000517:prevention & control; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002648:Child; D003153:Community Health Services; D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008403:Mass Screening; D008952:Mobile Health Units; D009873:Operating Rooms; D009885:Ophthalmology; D011182:Postoperative Care; D014792:Visual Acuity