An Introduction

Project Nayansukh

Do you know...

• Over 40 million people in the world are blind, and over 120 million have significant Low Vision that cannot be corrected, cured or treated by conventional refraction, medicine or surgery.

• This number is expected to double by the year 2020. (World Health Organization, 2004).

• This includes over 1.4 million visually impaired children age 0-14 years

Project Nayansukh- The Need

• Over 90% of these visually impaired people live in developing countries like India.

• Nearly 45 million Indians are visually impaired. In other words, every 3rd blind person in the world is an Indian. Almost 80% of them could have been cured.

• In developing countries like India, less than 15% of the visually impaired people have access to vision enhancement or rehabilitation services that could help to change their lives.

Project Nayansukh- The Need

• A majority of the children with low vision are sent to blind schools because they don't have access to or cannot afford vision enhancement services that could help integrate them into regular schools.

• A visually impaired adult or child can be trained, with the help of Vision Enhancement and low vision aids to independently perform at home, school, in the playfield and at work place.

• All this is possible if only such people could be made aware and could access and afford such services

Project Nayansukh- The Need

What is Project Nayansukh ?

An initiative to bring a ray of light and happiness in the lives of people with low vision and other eye disorders

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Icare Eye Hospital

Project Nayansukh- A joint initiative

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Project Nayansukh- Key Stakeholders

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Project Nayansukh- Main Activities

• Public Awareness campaign on the importance of eye, its care and latest vision correction possibilities

• Awareness program on volantary eye donation and gift of sight

• Identify potential donors from whom corneas can be harvested

• Regular CMEs for optometrists and doctors

• Support the surgery as well as boarding and lodging of poor and needy patients from remote rural areas who are unable to pay for it themselves

• Set up Vision Centers in remote areas and train local people as Vision Technicians

Project Nayansukh- Ways you could help

Help spread the message that

• Eyes are the most precious gift of God – they need to be care

• Many eye diseases are preventable or curable – if we are able to detect early.

• Make it a routine to get your eyes tested by a qualified doctor/ optometrist or optician

• Avoid going to an untrained or semi-trained person, specially in rural areas

• Eye donation is the most valuable gift you can give to someone….that way your eyes can continue to light up someone else’s life even after you are no more.

Project Nayansukh- Ways you could help

Support

• Regular CMEs for optometrists and doctors

• Sponsor the surgery/ boarding and lodging of poor and needy patients

– A cataract surgery with intra ocular lens implant for one needy patient - Rs 1500

– One regular meal for 100 patients at I-Care Eye Hospital and Research Centre – Rs 1500

– One special meal for 100 patients at I-Care Eye Hospital and Research Centre – Rs 3000

– One day’s medicines for 100 needy patients in the charitable ward –

– Cataract surgery for patient on a fixed date every year for five years. Rs. 7500

– One Cataract surgery every month for a year – Rs. 18000

Project Nayansukh- Ways you could help

Support:

• Set up Vision Centers in remote areas and train local people as Vision Technicians

• Sponsor one nursing student for a month - Rs. 2000

• Set up of a patient care facility like an examination room, in the name of a family member/friend Rs, 10,00,000