Eye Hospital and local governments continue collaboration for blindness elimination

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Eye Hospital, Tripureswor has continued collaborations with local governments for elimination of blindness.

In this connection, the hospital and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC)-12 entered an agreement.

Hospital’s Chief Executive Officer Dharma Raj Gosain and Ward Chair of Kathmandu-12 Bal Krishna Maharjan signed the agreement.

According to Executive Director Gosain, cataract selection camp will be organized in Kathmandu-12, eye check-up and treatment programme in public schools and primary training programme on eye treatment for women health volunteers working in the ward.

In the camp, free surgery will be provided to the patients selected for cataract surgery at the Nepal Eye Hospital and free glasses will be distributed to the students with low vision.

The hospital has already collaborated with Kathmandu-11, Lalitpur Metropolitan City-18 and Chandragiri Municipality-7.

According to executive director Gosain, the hospital had provided outpatient services to 175,000 people, 12,000 surgical services and mobile camps for eye treatment last year.

The hospital has been operating community eye treatment centres at Simra in Bara, Bhachchek in Gorkha and three places in Kathmandu Valley.