Ophthalmic Mission Trust
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Mission Statement
Provide the best and Latest vision care with concern and compassion to needy irrespective of him/her being rich or poor through a professionally committed team for preventive and curative ophthalmic care at free/affordable rates with prime priority on the safety and well-being of the individual. Striving for ongoing improvement in quality through an adaption of technology advancement and continuing education by strict adherence procedures and processes for cost-effectiveness with care and concern for maintaining a great level of staff satisfaction and motivation.
About This Cause
About the Organization Drashti Netralaya is now a charitable organization founded by two eye care professionals with the intention to make the economically backward rural tribal area “Avoidable and Treatable blindness free” named Dahod at the eastern border of Gujarat India for the last 20 years. There is having a backlog of 3,92,000eye surgeries in three districts they are working with. Drashti Netralaya is working in accordance with Government and they are working with district governance to share common goals and strategies to eliminate avoidable blindness. Gujarat state government and National Government contribute financially, technically, and in terms of human resources. Many individuals, national NGOs, and International NGOs, as donors are supporting this organization. Since 1991, 82% of the work they are doing totally free of cost to poor tribal people including all surgeries for eyes, more than 15000 surgeries a year. Drashti Netralaya has reached to Tertiary Eyecare Center: As far as quality is concerned their motto is a single standard of care to all whether the person is rich or poor and the hospital is a Tertiary eye care center that deals with preventive and curative aspects of all eye problems through various departments like Cataract dept, Retina, and vitreous dept, pediatric ophthalmology dept, strabismus dept, ocular trauma care center, oculoplastic dept, cornea dept, ocular oncology dept, optometry services, contact lens dept, etc. They are having rehabilitation centers for blinds and patients with low vision. Rural Eye health Care: People, with whom they are working, are illiterate. They were totally unaware about the eye care modalities when they started their service and now they are quite aware about eye care problems and treatment. These awareness they could achieve because of their intense outreach activities like Free Eye check upcamps and interior most village, fully equipped mobile ophthalmic units, School children eye screening programs for preventable blindness and door to door callof the patient to reach out the unreached. Education: To cater more and more patients and to expand their catchments they have many education courses like DNB Ophthalmology after MBBS, DO after MBBS., Post M S fellowships, NPCB training center for Govt doctors, Optometry schools and ophthalmic Technician and Nursing schools. Technical advancement:-Trusly Paperless System based Organization They have established complete eye care set up with advanced technology including paperless hospital with EMR and HMIS despite of being in rural remote area. Telemedicine center also is available to get highest quality and most advanced treatment to people of this area. Research: To avoid the blindness they are doing research including clinical and operational researches which are presented at national and international level through presentations and publications.