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KCR calls for eye camps in all villages
Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao on Sunday directed the Health department to be ready for conducting eye camps in all villages and prepare plans in this regard.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhara Rao on Sunday directed the Health department to be ready for conducting eye camps in all villages and prepare plans in this regard.
During the review meeting with the officials of the department on Sunday, he directed the officials to create awareness among people about eye tests with the help of MLAs, MPs, MLCs and local public representatives, and have a better planning to implement it.
Stating that the number of eye tests needed and number of teams of doctors to carry out the tests should be determined, KCR said that the required number of teams should be prepared on the basis of population and eye tests should be done in a day in each village. The medical teams should work for five days in a week, he said, informing that as many as 900 teams were available in the State and services of doctors of other States should also be utilised if required.
The Chief Minister said that strategies to hold tests in villages, Hyderabad city, municipal corporations and municipalities should be planned and spectacles should be supplied to those who required them as soon as the test was done. The medicines should be given at free of cost and cases of those who need operations should be referred to hospitals.
The Chief Minister observed that many people in the villages and towns have been suffering with eye-related problems and due to poverty and lack of awareness most of them were staying away from tests. “Many people continue to suffer with the sight-related problems though they knew about it,” he said, urging the Health department to create awareness among people about the need to get their sight tested.
Public representatives, NGOs, youth organisations and woman groups should be made part of this. Once people get an idea on the problem they would take care of the issue. Though it would be a problem to take up sight tests for each and every one in a village, the official machinery should work with sincerity and commitment to create a healthy Telangana, he noted. The review meeting was attended by Health Minister C Laxma Reddy, government’s chief advisor Rajiv Sarma, advisor GR Reddy, principal secretary Shanti Kumari, Commissioner of Health and Family Welfare V Karuna and other officials.
