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See the Latest Report from Lions Club of Kathamndu Kirtipur
Kirtipur is a poor town just south of Kathmandu. The home of the
original campus of Tribhuvan University, this area contains the
ancient and crowded village of Kirtipur as well as many smaller, and
even poorer, rural communities further south. Kirtipur Municipality
is deprived of adequate health care facilities. There are no eye
care facilities available to this section of population from
government or public sector, except for the very occasional eye
screening camps conducted by some non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
There is one Kirtipur Hospital recently started by Kathmandu Model
Hospital and one government health post delivering basic health care
services to the people of Kirtipur. Internally, Kirtipur
Municipality and neighboring villages are not well accessed by road.
Most of these communities are far from road facilities.
Vision
2020 is a global initiative jointly launched by the
World Health Organization and the International Agency
for the Prevention of Blindness
together with more than 20 international
non-governmental organizations involved in eye care and
prevention and management of blindness. Vision 2020 aims
to help eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020. Lions Club of Kathmandu Kirtipur is committed to the
national plan of action for eye care services and
implementation of Vision 2020 concept of elimination of
avoidable blindness. To fulfill the Vision 2020 concept,
Lions Club of Kathmandu Kirtipur has decided to run a
community based and ownership program, called Primary
Eye Care Service Center in Kirtipur. With available funds (internal and external) and shown interest
and commitment of the people of Kirtipur, the program
will gradually extend its service. It is a totally
independent and autonomous program that is run by
community people.
The
Primary Eye Care Service Center can provide basic and
timely primary care service to the patients in all
communities of Kirtipur to save the eye sight. It will
advocate and educate the community people on prevention
side. Lions Eye Care Centre organized four eye screening
camps in Kirtipur Municipality in June 2007 and examined 777 patients and found
83 patients with operable cataracts. Sixty-one cataract surgeries
were performed. From this figure, it seems that over 10%
of the eye patients coming to eye camps are cases of
operable cataract requiring sight restoring surgery.
The Center plays an important role in serving the poorest
segments of the population in the most rural and semi
urban people and underserved areas of Ilaka Number 10
(more than 12 Village Development Committees and 1
Kirtipur Municipality), Kathmandu District. This is
where blindness hits communities the hardest. Most eye
hospitals in Nepal are located in central Kathmandu and most of the remote village could not access the
proper eye service. it means people don’t get hospital
services. The best way to reach such population is by
community based primary eye care service (outreach
programs). These areas are those locations where
establishing an eye hospital is not feasible.
See the latest report from Lions Club of Kathmandu Kirtipur.
For more information about this project, including status reports, see
Eye Care Clinic or contact ANMF.
This is a unique opportunity for you to make a difference for the people of Nepal. Please make a donation to the America Nepal Medical Foundation. ANMF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible.
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