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The organizations take care of the costs of the camp, transporting the patients to surgery and their rehabilitation while Aravind does the surgery free of cost. Aravind started performing 5 times the number of cataract surgeries that were performed in the entire country and 16 times more than that of the entire U.S. [11]
Cataract surgery in Bedele, Ethiopia. Cataracts are the main cause of blindness in Africa, and affect approximately half of the estimated seven million blind people on the continent, a number that is expected to increase with population growth by about 600,000 people per year. As of 2005, the estimated cataract-surgery rate was about 500 ...
Cataract surgery targeting low-income or rural populations was formerly performed in makeshift operating rooms with outdated technology. A 2007 study published in the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology analyzed barriers that prevent people from seeking eye care in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. Where people had awareness of eyesight issues over the ...
Cataract surgery is one of the most cost-effective health interventions, since its economic benefits considerably exceed the cost of treatment. [ 131 ] [ 132 ] The 1998 World Health Report estimated 19.34 million people were bilaterally blind due to age-related cataracts, and that cataracts were responsible for 43% of all cases of blindness.
In contrast, in 2017, over 600,000 cataract surgeries were performed in over 16 countries [3] and over 98 percent were done with microsurgery and lens implants. Nepal is the only country in the Himalayan region performing more cataract surgery than the annual rate of new cataract blindness. [citation needed]
Operation Eyesight was founded in 1963 when a businessman from Calgary, Canada named Arthur (Art) Jenkyns met Dr. Ben Gullison, a physician who worked at a mission hospital in Sompeta, India. After their meeting, Art was inspired to found Operation Eyesight Universal to raise funds for people needing eye care in India.
Jeff Glor, a longtime anchor at CBS News, is exiting the network along with three other veteran correspondents in the most recent round of layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.. Glor has ...
India Today is a 24-hour English language television news channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh that carries news, current affairs and business programming in India. The channel is owned by TV Today Network Ltd , which is a part of Living Media .