Palghar Hospital and Vikramgad Visits

Palghar Hospital and Vikramgad Visits

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Team Suhrid paid the last visit for this academic year on 25-Apr-2015. The objectives were:

  • Visit to Jeevan Jyot Eye Hospital, Palghar
  • Common meeting with the teachers at Vikramgad

Visit to Jeevan Jyot Hospital

Eye problems are quite common in the tribal aea, where we operate.  While one can help in identifying the problems, the treatment is a big challenge. Except for an optometrist, they don’t have any eye care facility in the entire region. While,  we are able to handle standard myopia with the help of optometrist, we still did not have options available for the advanced eye treatment.

Jeevan Jyot hospital is located at Palghar and offers the eye related medical services to under privileged tribal people, who can’t afford these services. This hospital is very well maintained and has equipments for handling most common eye related problems.  Their team is fully familiar with the challenges faced by the local tribals and assured to help us at almost negligible cost.

The core services include:

  • Conventional optometry
  • Cataract Surgery
  • Retinal checkup / surgery
  • Glaucoma
  • Squint
  • Tear duct problems

We would be availing their services for the advanced treatment from the next academic year.

Hospital
Panel doctors
 

Common Meeting with teachers

The objective of the meeting was to recapitulate  the events for the entire year which include the achievements, hurdles faced, areas of improvement and the plans for the future.  Apart from the conventional projects, which we had started last year, we were able to:

  • Added three more schools this year.
  • Tied up with Goonj (NGO)
  • Start the water projects. Completed the projects at three schools. Distributed Water purifiers as well.
  • Start Eye process checkup in each school.
  • Initiation of personal grooming related activities – Distributed ties, belt, floaters, I card holders, Ribbons.
  • Distributed cupboards, furniture and cycles in almost all the schools.
  • Started Health check-up and Yoga instructions at Dadade school.

Apart from continuing with the current set of projects next academic year , we are planning to

  • Include Two Anganwadis (Play School)
  • Include two more primary schools.
  • Continue with the water projects in other schools
  • Put special emphasis on Oral Hygiene
  • Explore solar energy based projects for electricity

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