The primary purpose of the outreach is to identify patients’ of curable blindness. The outreach program focuses mainly on making eye care facilities accessible to
many poor patients as well as overall who cannot afford eye care due to their small
budgets. It also focuses on making eye care facilities available for isolated communities, who suffer because of poor
infrastructure, and a low-density population cause lack of eye awareness and facilities.
“Outreach’ should be defined as the provision of a specialized service to a location outside the normal service catchments area of the Hospital.”
The Outreach programs are conducted to identify potential patients requiring surgical treatment. Diagnostic camps held at various locations in and around Mumbai, enables the Hospital to motivate, persuade, and influence these patients to undergo necessary eye treatment which otherwise would have eluded them.
The screening eye camps are organized for Pediatric as well as for adults. Patients detected in the camps are treated free of cost in the base hospital.
Need of Outreach Dept -
• LACK OF AWARENESS
• LACK OF INFORMATION
• LACK OF SERVICES & ACCESSABILITY
• LACK OF MONEY - FINANCE
• NO ONE TO ACCOMPANY THEM AT HOSPITAL
To fullfil these problem KBHB Eye Hospital established Community Outreach Dept in 1997. This one of the important milestone of the hospital.
Dept have different Projects and Activities -
- General Community Outreach Dept -
- Pediatric Outreach Dept
- Mumbai Eye Care Campaign
- Low Vision Project
- Glaucoma Outreach Project
- Diabetic Retinopathy Project
- Training Programs for Teachers, Social Workers, Doctors, paramedics, health worker etc.
- Awareness program on eye care by using various modes like street plays, poster exhibition etc
- Resource center of eye health
- Referral center for the NGOs, Schools, Hospitals etc
Through these activities hospital is providing eye care services to more than 3 lakh patients from Mumbai, and over all Maharashtra
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