dr.shroff charity eye hospital apr 2013
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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I
awoke and saw that life was service. I
acted and behold, service was joy”
- Rabindranath Tagore
Together we can…October’12 – March'13
CONTENTS
Editors’ Desk 3
Focus Projects 4
Impact Stories 5
Spotlight of the Quarter 6
Making a difference 7-8
Events@SCEH 9-11
We@SCEH 12
Dear Friends,
It gives me immense pleasure to share the latest edition of “Together we can” with you. This edition covers highlights and updates over the past 6 months and also showcasing our special patients whose stories have inspired us and others.
SCEH has a long standing tradition of constantly engaging with its supporting community. Achieving our mission of curing “Avoidable Blindness” requires us put in our best everyday and do better tomorrow. We could not do this without the encouragement and support from you.
Editor’s Desk
Warm Regards,Kiran Mehta
2012 was a tremendous year which saw patient care increase by big margin and our efforts have been rewarded by accreditation from NABH.
As we embark on 2013, the ambitious Lakhimpur project is set to take shape. Our community outreach is set to become stronger and for that we appeal to more and more individuals and organizations to come forward and support us whole heartedly.
It would be great to hear your thoughts on this issue and SCEH.
Have a good read!
Focus Project
Inauguration of Primary Eye Care Centre at , Mohammadi
Dr.Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital constantly believes in providing quality Eye care for the under privileged in rural areas. This newest addition on 21st August, 2012, marks yet another milestone in this quest. The day was captured with the opening of Primary Eye care at Lakhimpur Khedi Speaking on the occasion Minister of State for Road Transport and highway Shri Jitin Prasada expressed his delight at the opportunity to participate in SCEH’s Nobel social Initiative and was ecstatic in inaugurating the Primary Eye Care Centre in rural area where medical facilities are very limited. Shri Jitin Prasada gave a brief on the activities of Dr.Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital to the rural communities including the various services they can avail from the primary eye centre. Also, he announced about the future plans and initiative taken by SCEH of opening the fully equipped Eye Hospital at Mohammadi for the fellow human beings suffering from Blindness who could not afford for medical facilities.
Bhoomi pujan of Dr Shroff's Charity eye hospital land at sahdewa village Mohammdi -Lakhimpur kheri[
On going construction of Mohammadi Hospital,Lakhimpur Kheri
UPCOMING SECONDARY HOSPITAL IN LAKHIMPUR KHERI
DISTRICT OF UTTAR PRADESH.
The Sight-restoring Angel in North India
According to the International Agency for prevention of Blindness, more than 800 million people in the world are blind, and what is more alarming is that India has the Largest Blind population in the world. But the positive side is that around 80% of this blindness is avoidable; due to lack of availability of sufficient and quality Eye care facilities, eliminating avoidable blindness has become, an uphill task. I am proud of the fact that as a volunteer at the hospital, I am indirectly a part of this daunting task of eliminating avoidable blindness.
SCEH is one of the best Eye Care Institutions in North India providing quality Eye Care to people across all sections of the society. Working on a Cross Subsidy Principle, about 50 to 60% of the total sight restoration surgeries are done free or highly subsidized for the underprivileged section of the society. There is absolutely no discrimination between the patients who can pay and those who cannot. The same doctors treat both of them, with the same dedication. Discrimination is not made even when it comes to food, as the same food that everybody else pays for, is served free to the poor patients, lovingly, which is a rare sight in any of the Charity hospitals. Volunteering with SCEH, has been an eye opener for me, when I realized that poor eye sight can add so much to the difficulties of the poor people, who struggle to earn enough to make both the ends meet. In my opinion SCEH, is a sight-restoring angel indeed..!!
Ishwarya LakshmiStudent, Marketing leadership Program,
School of inspired LeadershipSOIL, Volunteer at SCEH
Impact Stories
Spotlight of the quarter
Prof.Pawan Sinha from MIT,USA has been associated with SCEH since 2003 through Project Prakash. This project is a unique combination of Service delivery coupled with scientific knowledge. While SCEH identifies children with bilateral congenital blinding conditions across North India and then provide therapeutic services. Researchers from MIT, under the able guidance of Prof Pawan Sinha, study their responses and behaviour to revolutionise our understanding of blindness and intervention techniques in the coming years.
Prof. Sinha received the PECASE in the year 2011. The PECASE awards are the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. Government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.SCEH organized a special evening programme to felicitate Prof Sinha for his achievement and association with the hospital.Our esteemed trustee Dr.Noshir Shroff and our Honorable chief guest Prof. R.K Shevgaonkar Director of IIT Delhi gave him the memento.
Colors had no meaning for the children who were suffering from Congenital Cataract since birth, till the staff of Project Prakash and volunteers from Delhi College for Arts engaged them in fun-filled painting exercises, they enjoyed in making hand and foot paintings. The outcome was beautiful paintings and a very enjoyable day for the children; it was an eye opener for their parents, who learnt that their children could spend their time so
Paintings by Children who got sight through Project Prakash
Making a difference
ENT Department Sponsored by LIC of India
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Eye OPD Sponsored by LIC of India
Get Set Go!!
Snapshots of the 5th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon
SCEH ran at the 5th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon
We wish Healthy sight to every child!
Eye screening camp at an orphanage, an initiative by Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital and Standard Chartered Bank.In the first phase, preliminary screening was conducted to check whether children were facing any eye problems. In the second phase, treatment was given to identified children and in the third phase, surgeries would be performed at base hospital.
B-Scan donated by our esteemed partner, Leela Prem Narain Agarwal Charitable Trust in 2012; The trust has been donating regularly for the past few years towards renovating and equipping our Retina department. Today with their support we have the best technology and machines, which elevate our Retina department to being one of the best facility in whole of North India
B-Scan donated by Leela Prem Narain Agarwal Charitable Trust
ORBIS CEO Ms.Jenny Hourhan and Legal Head Ms. Diana Wheeler with their team visited Dr.Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital to know the application of quality assurance and the method/ tools/ process/ skills used to apply it into partners system.
ORBIS visit to SCEH
Making a difference
‘Australian High Commission Development Aid Program’ has been supporting our hospital for small projects since 2010. They recently supported us for the equipment for the mobile diagnostic van which will help us to screen and diagnose eye disease like Glaucoma, at the very doorsteps of the underserved patients of rural/urban areas. The Hon Simon Crean MP Minister for Australia, for Regional Development, local Government & Arts inaugurated the Mobile Diagnostic van of SCEH. Mr. Peter Varghese, the Australian High Commissioner also accompanied him.
Inauguration of the Mobile Diagnostic van of SCEH on 9th Nov, 2012
Events at SCEH
From 18 to 23 March’2013, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, with the support of Indian Optometric Association and Transitions conducted a successful and enjoyable World Optometry awareness Week (WOW). Large number of awareness activities held at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Institute to showcase this week and sensitize the community about the blindness status in our country.The weeklong program highlighted the fact that the optometrist are very effective and important health workforce in eye care service delivery.
Optometry Awareness Week
Lavelle Fund for the Blind , Inc., formerly the Lavelle School for the Blind, began operating a school for the blind in 1909. In 1947, the School became a state-chartered and state-funded 4201 school dedicated to serving multi-handicapped children with visual impairments.The Lavelle Fund for the Blind is dedicated to supporting programs that promote the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and physical development of blind and low-vision people of all ages, together with programs that help people avoid vision loss. The Board members of the Lavelle Fund, along with their long time associate ORBIS visited the hospital to get first hand experience of SCEHs community outreach model and work. They also visited one of the hospital’s Vision Centers operating from the slums of Jahangirpuri, north Delhi.
Visit of the Board Members of Lavell Fund for the Blind(USA)
The Cornea Team achieved yet another big task of re-initiating the procedure of keratoprosthesis in Shroff eye hospital with the help of senior faculty at Sankara Nethralya. It has helped to give vision to two one eyed patients with end stage ocular surface disorders. These patients had repeated graft failures due to stem cell deficiency and the only resort for them was Boston Keratoprosthesis which is an artificial cornea made of polymethaacrylate(PMMA) of a collor button design.It is composed of a front plate with a stem, which houses the optical portion of the device, a back plate and a titanium locking c-ring.
Boston Keratoprosthesis : Cutting Edge procedure at SCEH
Events at SCEH
A function to felicitate and respect the contribution made by the Donor families during July 2011 to June 2012 was organized in the premises of Dr. SCEH on 3rd September 2012. Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam(Former President of India) was the Chief Guest. Dignitaries from Ministry of Health, Govt. of India, Delhi Govt. including SPO (NPCB), DPO & DPM from DBCS, Central Dist, HCRP partners from Saroj Hospital, Tirathram Hospital & Jaipur Golden Hospital were also present to grace the occasion.
Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam - our chief guest at Amarjyoti Function
National Low Vision Summit was organized at Dr SCEH on 27th and 28th Oct 2012 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide; 39 million are blind and 246 Million have low vision, of whom a larger number reside in INDIA.India has done well in last few years in eye care and now it needs to increase awareness among the stake holders and the community for setting up low vision services.Keeping this into consideration a ‘National Low Vision Project’ was launched, which is sponsored by Sightsaversand mentored by Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, An Orientation Programme was organized at Dr SCEH on 27th and 28th Oct 2012 for 21 partner hospitals and many ophthalmologists participated the event.
The aim of the summit is to sensitize the group about the need of low vision services in the country and long term plan for the National Low Vision project was discussed among the partners
World Sight Day !SCEH and its proud partner Standard Chartered Bank associated for a walkathon to spread awareness about avoidable blindness and eye donation, on 11th Oct, 2012, World Sight Day.
Events at SCEH
SCEH organized free eye check up camps for the under privileged in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh. A large number of people from Jabalpur and surrounding areas gathered for a free eye checkup. MR. Shivraj Singh Chauhan (Chief Minister OF M.P) was also present during the occasion The camp was also organized at Jabalpur Blind School, where around 70 school girls were provided free eye check up.
Vision centre inaugurated at Rehmani Nursing Home, Lal Kaun, Delhi
SCEH partners with Rotary International for free eye check up camp
Mr. Vinod Kumar, a Para Medical Supervisor at Chief District Medical Office (CDMO) Delhi inaugurated the 4th vision center of the hospital in Delhi. The Vision center is equipped with screening equipment in Oder to provide quality eye care to the under privileged section of society
NGO Mela organized by the Australian High Commission on their embassy premises on 8 Dec‘12SCEH participated in Oz Haat (NGO Mela) at Australian High Commission where we displayed the paintings created by the special children who were born with Congenital Cataracts, in lay term they had not perceived light since birth. Post surgery, the children participated in an art workshop as a part of rehabilitation to stimulate vision. The colors in the paintings reflect the potential that is locked inside each such child who is labeled as blind
New Eye Bank facility at SCEH is supported by The North Carolina Eye Bank
On the occasion of World Glaucoma week free Glaucoma screening camp was organized at GurgaonThe patients who participated in the camp underwent Visual acuity, slit lamp examination, gonioscopy, fundus photo and FDT perimetryA large number of people participated in d Glaucoma camp
World Glaucoma Week(10th March-16th March)
SCEH has one of the fastest growing Eye Bank in the whole of North India. Sight Life (US based non-profit global eye health organization and eye bank solely focused on eliminating corneal blindness around the world) and SCEH in association with AIIMS and Guru Nanak Eye Bank are setting up a centralized Eye Bank in Delhi. In recognition of the initiatives of SCEH, and its partners, the North Carolina Eye Bank, USA, supported SCEH to develop a modern and state-of-art facility at the hospital. The new facility was inaugurated by the chairman of their Board, Mr. Bailey Lipfirt.
We@SCEH
Workshop conducted on Women's Safety and Self Defense for Female Employees at SCEH
Mr. Arun Sharma, an expert in the world of Martial Arts with 12 years of experience and 6 years of teaching experience, conducted a workshop on self-defense for all the female employees of SCEH. All the women who participated in the workshop were very thankful for the workshop. The workshop gave them many practical tips and taught them some useful techniques to fight against any such assaults on them.
National Programme for Control of Blindness recognizes Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital's active participation in prevention and control of blindness in India
Recognition from National Programme for Control of Blindness
Dr.Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital is now NABH Accredited
SCEH is amongst the league of few hospitals in India, to have received the NABH (National Accreditation Board of Hospitals) certificate in a short span of time. SCEH’S NABH journey started in July 2008, as SCEH family organized itself into small teams of health care professionals taking the daunting task to set systems and process documentations in place. From infrastructure & facility management to services & medical management, all teams were aligned with only one focus in mind – ensuring Better Patient Care & Improved Patient Safety through improvement in quality services offered by our hospital. And, here we stand now: NABH accredited
Mr Shantanu and Ms Kiran Mehta attended a 3-day extensive workshop on ‘Branding for NGOs’ organised by S.P.Jain Institute for Management on their campus in Mumbai in the month of February 2013. The workshop’s objective was to bring together teams of various NGOs and arrive at a scientific process for brand building of the participating organisations, through brain-storming sessions, real consumer interviews and collective thinking. By the end of the workshop every organisation got ideas to shape their strategic direction towards building their brand
Branding workshop at S.P Jain Institute
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