Archive for Advanced Medical Support
We conduct eye checkup in three stages. First stage deals with the teachers doing the first round of screening at their schools. The suspect cases are brought to Vikramgadh for the testing by professional optician. The cases of high myopia or any other complex eye problems are then finally examined at Jyotirmay Clinic Thane. We had identified 7 kids for the advanced treatment. Five cases were old, wherein we had to follow up. There were two new cases, wherein the kids showed very poor vision in one eye.
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For eye checkup earlier, we used to take a combination of ophthalmologist and optometrist to the schools. This model was ok, if we had to check around 60 to 70 in a day. However, when we had to cover 500 odd kids, it was impossible to even complete the basic optometry (Checking the basic vision against the chart).
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In this article, we are sharing the story of another Kid, Atul Wangad, who went through a major eye surgery in the second week of April 2019. Atul Wangad is 10 year old kid from Wangadpada (Taluka Vikramgadh). He is from a poor family. His father is out almost 6 to 7 months in a year to earn money. Till last year, he was not part of Suhrid foundation supported school. After he moved to our Guravpada school, his teacher found low vision during the annual eye test, which we conduct. His vision was perfect in one eye, wherein there was NO vision in the other eye.
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Chetan Tokare is a tribal kid from Kaspada in Palghar district. We generally carry out the first level screening for the poor vision at the schools only. Subsequently, the kids are taken to Vikramgad to a trained optician, who determines the actual number with refractometer. While it was evident that Chetan was not able to […]
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We had finished the preliminary eye-checkup before Diwali at Vikramgad. Some 7 kids were earmarked for the advanced treatment. Apart from Chetan Tokre (Nystagmus patient), we had three more kids with very high progressive myopia. One kid had untreated eye injury and one kid had low vision despite of not so high number. A vehicle […]
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After completing the normal health camps across the school, our next objective was to drive the eye checkup. We had started eye camps quite early in Jan 2013, when two ophthalmologists and trained optometrists visited with us. Since the focus was only on 40 kids and around 60 adults, we were able to manage it […]
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As a practice, the identified children from half-yearly medical camp done in the schools are brought to Mumbai for advanced check up of the problems which cannot be diagnosed or treated in our villages. 5 Children who did not show improvement with medicines in the camp of Jan 2018 or children who needed to undergo […]
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We had finished our initial screening of the students at the school in the first week of Oct, 2017. We had identified 13 students, who were to be taken to Vikramgadh for the second round of testing with the trained optometrist. We take the critical cases, identified in the second round of screening to the […]
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Just before Diwali, we had completed the first round of eye checkup at the school level. Our teachers had identified 35 cases. During this visit, the teachers brought the kids to Vikramgad for the optometric test. This process had started almost 2 years back and the kids are quite comfortable dealing with refractrometer and actual […]
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We organized the medical camps in Aug and Sept this year for the general health and eye camps in the month of Nov, 2015. Based on the findings, we identified roughly 25 kids for eye, ENT and Neuro related ailments. Our doctors provided preliminary medications for the ENT patients and waited for the feedback from […]
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