PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Jan 3: Jamshedpur Eye Hospital (JEH) rolled out its first ‘Satellite Mobile Eye Clinic on Van’ as part of its larger community outreach programme to eliminate avoidable visual impairment among the local population.
JEH will also start its new software-assisted ‘Lazy Eye Therapy’, in collaboration with Bynocs Solution, in which selected cases of adult amblyopia, a condition leading to loss or lack of development of clear vision in one or both eyes, to treat by a six-week software assisted Video Gaming Program.
The new Satellite Mobile Eye Clinic is being launched in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Jamshedpur and Tata Steel Foundation.
Given the shortage of healthcare professionals especially the specialist cadre and trained para-medics, JEH plans to establish itself as a ‘Teaching and Training Eye Centre’ to produce well-trained, efficient Ophthalmologists and Optometrists to serve the country and this region to reduce the prevalence of blindness of India from 1.99% to 0.3%.
JEH is already empanelled with Arka Jain University for providing one-year mandatory Internship training to the final year student of BSc. Optometry on a selection basis.
The hospital also plans to start the post-graduate fellowship training programme in cataract and other sub-specialities as well as start post-graduate DNB Teaching in Ophthalmology soon.
In 2022, JEH celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by inaugurating its newly constructed, state-of-art, NABH-compliance Modular OT Complex and Mechanized Laundry.
JEH has also augmented its academic infrastructure by adding a classroom, a webinar room and a library, well equipped with an audio-visual conferencing system and modern teaching gadgets.
