JSW plays a good Samaritan, conducts mega eye-checkup camp in Odisha’s Paradip

Mega camp to cover a population of 10,000 at the plant site and periphery

By Payal Banerjee

Paradip, March 30: A mega free eye checkup camp is continuing at the JSW plant site under the aegis of JSW Foundation. The camp is a convergence initiative with the District Public Health Administration.

The free eye checkup camp is currently on at Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujang villages for the benefit of its local residents. Bhumika Eye Hospital and Vision Spring voluntary institution have also collaborated with JSW foundation.

The camp kickstarted at Patana Primary School and Anganwadi center of Dhinkia Panchayat and now is being held at Mahala and Gobindpur villages.

Elderly and old age residents constitute the majority target for the for eye checkup. People are required to go for a simple registration process by submitting their names through Aadhar card and thereafter avail the free treatment. It is found that about 80 percent of participants were detected for presbyopia.

The patients are being given free lenses for specific problems after the examination. Those who need advance eye care are referred for advanced treatment.

Around 200 people are undergoing eye examination per day. The authorities stated that the camp would cover around 10,000 patients over the course of one-month period at its site and periphery.

The camp will be held in different parts of Nuagaon and Gadkujang panchayats in the coming days will continue till the last week of April.

Similar camps are in pipeline for Sandhakud and Nehru Bangla area of Paradip municipality in near future.

Dhinkia villagers like Bibhu Ranjan Das, Prashant Raut, Lizarani Bardhan, Arakhita Gochayat, Pitambar Gochayat of Dhinkia expressed their joy for being provided with free spectacles. The villagers have widely praised JSW Foundation for the initiative.