PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec 27: Ranchi’s renowned eye specialist Dr Bharti Kashyap was honoured today with the National IMA’s Dr Jyoti Prasad Ganguly Memorial Award for her campaign for the eradication of women’s cervical cancer and the vision protection of poor people, especially children at a function oragnised in Patna.
Dr Bharti Kashyap, who was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar 2017 by the President of India, has received many national and international awards.
Under Drishti Suraksha Abhiyan, she went to work in Naxal-affected areas of Jharkhand, where she examined the eyes of more than 20 lakh poor children studying in government schools.
A special vision protection campaign was also started in 2021 under which the impoverished receive free glasses and cataract surgery every week in Ranchi’s slum region and neighbouring villages.
She also runs many campaigns for the eradication of cancer in women. Dr Bharti Kashyap as the chairperson of Jharkhand’s Women Doctors Wing IMA has been running a four-pronged campaign for eradicating the cancer of women in Jharkhand.
Under her leadership, mega health camps are organized in remote areas by various doctors’ wings of Jharkhand IMA and kit two and kit six pills are also given to women suffering from genital infection as only some of the genital infections are there.
Special training camps are also organized regularly by Gynecologists (Cancer) for gynaecologists posted in government sectors of Jharkhand. Due to which the treatment of local women by doctors in all local government hospitals continues regularly.
The state government has established a goal of screening 6% of women of reproductive potential who have symptoms in government facilities on the initiative of the Women Doctors Wing’s initiative.
In view of this, machines for detection and treatment of cervical pre-cancer along with machines for detection of breast cancer are also being installed at MGM Medical College Hospital in Jamshedpur on 26 February 2022, which will benefit the women of the lower strata.
