title: Yavatmal District Blindness Control Society: a case study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To retrospectively study the records and reports available at the District Blindness Control Society (DBCS), Yavatmal in terms of target fixation, performance and utilisation of manpower and equipment.
  
  
  METHODS
  All the available records, reports, correspondence, and proceedings of meetings from 1981-98 were scrutinized and analyzed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The performance records and reports showed that over the last 10 years the target achievement of DBCS is close to 100%. However, the fixed facility (District hospital/Tertiary hospital where cataract surgeries are being performed under strict aseptic conditions) performance does not match the targets. The district mobile unit camp performance achieved 35-40% of the target in the last quarter of the financial year.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The target fixation is irrational and needs improvement, and it is necessary for the program managers in the district to undertake analysis of the available data to ensure performance improvement.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Preventive and Social Medicine, V.N. Government Medical College, Yavatmal, India.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: R V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Dubewar
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Deotale
mesh_terms: D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006767:Hospitals, District / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008952:Mobile Health Units / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data