During year 2009, Community Eye Health project team of XIDAS, which is working in tribal dominated and insurgency affected Bhanupratappur Tahsil of Kanker district of Chhattisgarh celebrated ‘World Sight Day’ based on theme ‘Gender and Eye Health-Equal Access to Eye Care’ in its true spirit by restoring sight of 13 cataract blind children.
Media coverage on the success of XIDASXIDAS had identified 17 children (11 girls and 6 boys) with bilateral cataract between age group 1 to 15 years from Bhanupratappur and Durukondal blocks of Kanker (North Bastar) district through its CBR project. As there was no any facility in the near by area to conduct pediatric cataract surgeries, XIDAS sent these children to government medical college, Raipur situated at around 300km from their respective places with the help of District Collector through District Blindness Control Society of Kanker. It took a lot of persuasion to counsel parents to send these children for cataract surgery by the health workers who acted as the connecting link.
Between, 8th to 14th October 2009, 13 children were operated on both eyes as advised by a team of doctors and were able to see the light of Deepawali (festival of lights). Only 4 children could not be operated due to various health reasons. XIDAS is planning to have a second round of operations once these children become medically fit for operation.
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