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अखिल भारतीय आयुर्विज्ञान संस्थान, नई दिल्ली
All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

Community Eye Care Services

Community Eye Care Services

Primary eye care services: As a part of routine outreach eye care services, it runs twenty-eight Primary Eye Care Clinics in urban slums and underprivileged community of Delhi and National Capital Region in collaboration with Delhi Government and various NGOs. primary eye care services to poor and vulnerable communities as identified locations in Delhi. Patients requiring cataract surgery are transported to RP Centre and get admitted and operated free of charge.

Low Vision Rehabilitation Services Under this initiative, vision rehabilitation services are being provided to people with visual disability by a rehabilitation team of Community Ophthalmology.  Orientation & mobility, reading and writing rehabilitation services, low vision evaluation, counselling on vocational training, activities of daily living (ADL), Instrumental ADL, issuance of disability certificates, advice for environmental and lighting modification are various components of services being offered to the needy patients and family members. All the information about various government schemes and assistance to avail them are also provided. Young patients needing admission to schools for the blind are also helped. Community based rehabilitation is also run through networking system with various NGOs. Patients are being referred for vocation training to such NGOs.

Volunteers training: Community ophthalmology provide training to the volunteers in primary eye care and involve volunteers in the vision centres and camp activities.

Health education on Primary eye care: Regular eye health education events are conducted to create awareness on eye health. 

School based screening - The department also involved in screening school children of Delhi for refractive errors and trains school-teachers. Screening is done through existing vision centers of department and also by involving and training teachers in school-based screening activities.

Reach In Programme (RIP): Reach in Programme is astrategy to capture unreached and vulnerable population of cataract patients through partnerships with community based organizations. Through it, screening camps are organized in surrounding areas of Delhi and free cataract surgical services are done through community eye care ward at R.P. Centre. There are more than 10 NGOs which involved in Reach in Programme.

Diabetic Retinopathy (DR) screening in urban slums - daily one camps organized with support of local NGOs. Known diabetic patient are identified through house to house visits with the support of volunteers. These patients are invited in the DR screening camps in the local areas. A low cost non mydriatic fundus camera is used for screening of DR cases. All suspected DR cases are referred to RP Centre for further management.

Outputs of activities of Community Ophthalmology Department in relation to patient care during the period March 2019 to March 2020:- 

Community Based Eye Care Services: March 2019 to March 2020

Primary Eye Care Services through Vision Centres

Number of Vision Centres

28

Attendees at Vision Centres

82166

Refractions Conducted

34293

Spectacles prescribed

33497

Patients referred to R.P. Centre

9816

Primary Eye Care Volunteer training events

Volunteers Training Programmes organized

42

Volunteers Trained

414

Eye Health Education Events

Eye Health Education Events conducted in Vision Centres

1106

Eye Health Education Events conducted in RPC

184

Reach-in-Programme for cataract surgery in Rural and remote areas

Cataract screening camps organized

Nil

People examined

Nil

Refraction

Nil

Patients referred to R.P. Centre

Nil

School Eye Screening (SES) Programme

Schools covered under SES Programme

67

Numbers of Children screened

58110

Refractions Conducted

5838

Spectacles Prescribed

5142

Spectacles Booked

5142

Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Camps

Total number of DR screening camps organized

257

Diabetic patients screened in camps

3405

Total DR Patients identified

409

Total DR Patients referred to R.P Centre

405

Patient Reported for treatment at Dr. R.P. Centre under Community Ophthalmology

Total Patient Reported under community ophthalmology:

5251

Total Patient Operated for cataract surgeries under community ophthalmology

2156

Follow-up camps organized

48

Patients examined in Follow-up camps

1437

Total Patient Reported under community ophthalmology:

5251

Low Vision Rehabilitation

Total Enrolled

1207

Mobility Training

581

ADL Counselling

1085

Visual Disability Certification 

388

Vocational Training

45

Special School Admission

49


 

 

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