Village VisionInternational Centre for Advancement of Rural <strong>Eye</strong> care2. Hyderabad Outreach Urban Slums <strong>Eye</strong> care (HOUSE) ProgramSurveysSlums/villages surveyed 1Population covered through door to door survey 2,845People identified with eye ailments and referred for eye examination 284Community Screening ProgramsCSPs organized 17People screened 7,760Treated at venue 1,236Prescribed spectacles 3,624Referred to base hospital 1,284Within normal limits 1,616Referral Services at <strong>LV</strong>PEI-VST screening centrePeople treated at vision centre 1,027Prescribed spectacles 478Treated for other conditions 110Cataract & other surgeries 29Referred to secondary and tertiary care facilities 217Within normal limits 193<strong>LV</strong>PEI & Lakshmi Charitable Clinic Community <strong>Eye</strong> Care Program,Narsingi village, Ranga Reddy districtPeople screened 68Treated at venue 32Referred to base hospital 16Within normal limits 20Vision Screening Centre, Kismatpur, HyderabadPeople screened 71Prescribed spectacles 37Referred to base hospital 15Others/Within normal limits 19Community <strong>Eye</strong> Screening Programs were organized during the quarter at the following places: Yedulabad village, Ghatkesarm, Rangareddy district Infosys Technologies Limited, Manikonda Village Lingampally, Rangareddy district Riyasath Nagar, Moin Bagh, Hyderabad Jai Bharat – Jana Harsha Foundation, Ibrahimpatnam, Ranga Reddy district Jai Bharat – Janaharsha Foundation, Abdullahpurmet, Hayathnagar mandal, Ranga Reddy district Jai Bharat – Janaharsha Foundation, L B Nagar Crossroad, yderahbad HyHyderabad Govt. High School, Nanapur Circle, Gulmatkar village, Yadagir taluka, Gulbarga district<strong>LV</strong>PEI - Fullerton India ‘Save the <strong>Eye</strong>’ programs YMCA Hall, Gandhi Market, Anakapalli, Visakhapatnam Sri Satya Sai Kalyanamadampam, Bhimavaram, West Godavari district BVR Kalakendram, Near Fire Station, Thadipally Gudem, West Godavari district Govt. Girls Junior College, Usmanpura, Karimnagar IMA Hall, Eluru, East Godavari district Vidyaniketan High School, Nasarpura, Siddipet, Medak district Arya Vaisya Kalyanamandapam, Chirala, Prakasam district Balaji Bhavan, Thirupathi, Chittor district Sama Public School, Jaganadhapuram, Kakinada, West Godavari district Sri Krishna Geeta Ashram, Near Padmashali Klayanamadapam, Proddatur, Kadapa districtSchool <strong>Eye</strong> Screening ProgramBrahm Prakash DAV School, Midhani Township, Kanchanbagh, HyderabadNo. of children screened 1,528Identified with eye ailments 173Prescribed spectacles 61Advised to continue with same spectacles 70Referred to primary/secondary/tertiary centers 42Within normal limits 1,35514
Village VisionInternational Centre for Advancement of Rural <strong>Eye</strong> careB. Education and TrainingDiploma in <strong>Eye</strong> Health Management courseThe 1-year Diploma in <strong>Eye</strong> Health Management course hasbeen restructured to ensure greater academic as well asprofessional rigor. The senior faculty of both the clinical andsupportive services departments were involved in the process.Applications were invited for the current year. A Training ofTrainers (TOT) program has been designed to enable theteachers to teach the course effectively. The course will beformally launched on August 1, <strong>2008</strong>.Training of Trainers of SCOJO Vision EntrepreneursA program for Training of Trainers of SCOJO Vision Entrepreneursin integrated community eye care was conducted at ICARE –<strong>LV</strong>PEI on May 21, <strong>2008</strong>. A total of 12 district coordinators,including Mr Graham Macmillan, Senior Director, Mr AruneshSing, India Country Director, Mr Vipin Sharma, Manager –Programs and Operations, and Mr Maruti Ram Kesiraju, VEChannel Manager, participated in the program.Trainers workshop for Vision Technician CourseUnder the Standard Chartered Bank’s ‘Seeing is Believing’project, representatives from eye institutes in India – L V <strong>Prasad</strong><strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>, Dr Shroff’s Charity <strong>Eye</strong> Hospital, Venu <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>,Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya, Aravind <strong>Eye</strong> Hospital, Madurai –participated in an orientation workshop for trainers of the VisionTechnician course from <strong>June</strong> 16-17, <strong>2008</strong>.CEC & CBR Training ProgramsICARE conducted a community eye care and community basedrehabilitation field workers training program from <strong>June</strong> 23-28,<strong>2008</strong>. A total of 34 field staff from 7 satellite centres of <strong>LV</strong>PEI(Mudhole, Adilabad, Thoodukurthy, Karamchedu, Markapur,Nellore and Madanapally) participated in the program held atKismatpur campus.C. ResearchImpact assessment studyThe ongoing ‘Impact of correction of refractive errors amongchildren aged 10 to 15 years on activity based performance andother vision based functions’ study has completed its baselinedata collection at all its study locations. A barrier study datacollection was done from children who have not boughtspectacles even a month after being prescribed spectacles. Allthese child subjects were provided spectacles free of cost.Further, data on the one-month impact after using spectacleswas also collected. The project members conducted a sensitivityand specificity analysis of the teachers’ screening outcomewith the vision technicians screening. This project is supportedby Vision CRC, Australia.Sight for Kids‘Sight for Kids’ is a collaborative child eye health project forchildren between 5 and 9 years, supported by Johnson &Johnson, Lions International, L V <strong>Prasad</strong> <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> and Lions<strong>Eye</strong> Hospitals of Greater Hyderabad. During this quarter, <strong>LV</strong>PEIinitiated the production of a revised teacher’s manual, eyehealth posters in Telugu, monitoring and evaluating tools, anda redesigned screening protocol. In addition, the partneringeye hospitals staff were trained on how to document theactivities.Pediatric Ophthalmology Learning and Training Centre(POLTC)Under this joint ORBIS International – L V <strong>Prasad</strong> <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>initiative training of the first batch of pediatric eye care teamswas completed by the end of March <strong>2008</strong>. Training of thesecond and third batches is in progress. A total of 3,764 childrenwere screened at the community level and 11,218 at thesecondary and tertiary levels. Of these, 943 children wereexamined under anesthesia, 425 children were prescribedspectacles and 2,189 surgeries were performed. Traineesunder the project were involved in presentations and researchactivities. They were also exposed to rural satellite centres andvision centres at Mahabubnagar district.Diabetes Prevention Program in Prakasam districtTill date training has been given to 595 children and 17 teachersin 2 schools of 2 villages in 2 mandals of Prakasam district. Till<strong>June</strong> <strong>2008</strong> each trained child has provided health educationand screened 3,107 families with 10,880 persons for diabetes.Members of 6,625 self-help groups were given health educationabout diabetes. A total of 15,599 persons at risk for diabeteswere screened for blood and urine sugar; of them 1,520 weresuspected to have diabetes. A refresher training program washeld in <strong>June</strong> <strong>2008</strong> for training all vision technicians in MarkapurService Centres in screening for blood sugar.Sight First – 1141The 3-year Lions – L V <strong>Prasad</strong> <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> Capacity DevelopmentProject for Management of Diabetic <strong>Eye</strong> Disease in AndhraPradesh, which started in August 2005, will build the capacityof Lions and Lions affiliated eye hospitals (including a satellitehospital of L V <strong>Prasad</strong> <strong>Eye</strong> <strong>Institute</strong>) to comprehensively dealwith the problem of diabetic eye disease. A project partnersorientation meeting was held on <strong>April</strong> 18, <strong>2008</strong>. A nationalseminar on diabetic retinopathy has been planned for October3-4, <strong>2008</strong>. The project will end by July 31, <strong>2008</strong>.D. Community <strong>Eye</strong> Health JournalThe seventeenth issue of the ‘Community <strong>Eye</strong> Health Journal’with Indian supplement, published under the aegis of theVISION 2020 Indian Forum, was dispatched to 4935 readers allover the country and to neighboring countries includingPakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Zambia and Bangladesh, Malasiya,Ghana and the Sultanate of Oman.15
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