Peripheral Eye Camps in India

Hypertension in Indian Truck Drivers: The Need for Comprehensive Service Provision to This Mobile Population (2017-18)

Background: Uncontrolled hypertension and diabetes in truckers can negatively affect their work performance. This paper analyses the first-year data of an eye care program for truckers to assess their need for hypertension and diabetes screening. Materials and Method: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected via eye camps for truckers held between July 2017 and June 2018. Truckers wh...

Comparison of cataract surgery in a base hospital and in peripheral eye camps.

Intraocular gentamicin as intraoperative prophylaxis in South India eye camps.

The incidence of bacterial endophthalmitis has been 3-6% after cataract extraction in the eye camps of South India from 1961-75. During this time 50 791 cases were operated using systemic and topical chloramphenicol prophylaxis. This study evaluated the prophylactic intracameral injection of 50 microng of gentamicin in eye camp cataract extractions. Only 6 of 1626 patients treated with intracam...

Updating the cataract eye camp Low - cost phaco , small incision surgery improves outcomes in developing countries

TO Sanjiv Desai MD, the problem is as simple as it is stark: “India has the largest blind population of any country in the world.” An estimated 8.9 million blind people, or nearly one-quarter of the world’s blind population, live in India. More than half could be cured with cataract surgery. But many live in poverty in remote rural villages. Desai and colleagues at the Tarabai Desai Eye Hospita...

Bilateral Abducent Palsy in Leptospirosis- An Eye Opener to a Rare Neuro Ocular Manifestation: A Case Report

Leptospirosis, a disease of great significance in tropical countries, presents commonly as a biphasic illness with acute febrile episode in the first phase followed by a brief afebrile period and then by the second phase of fever with or without jaundice and renal failure. However, it has varied manifestations and unusual clinical features ascribed to immunological phenomena can occur due to th...