Eye health Archives - Page 2 of 14

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Aim to screen 3 lakh people for eye health by end December 2025

March 2022

Blogs / Eye health /

Sightsavers India Fellow, 2019-2021 gets candid as he completes his fellowship journey. Here’s a tete-a-tete with the ophthalmologist on eye health in rural India, the pandemic and his overall fellowship journey.

Dr Anoop Kumar Singh, December 2021

Stories / Eye health /

Shanti Devi, 65 years old widow, in the city of Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Stories / Eye health /

Fifty-nine-year-old Gaya Bai from Katni manages her household expenses from the meagre pension of her retired Police constable husband.

Stories / Eye health /

Sixty year old named Kodu lives with his wife in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh.

News / Eye health /

Sightsavers with the support of SBI Capital Markets Limited - one of India's leading investment banks, as a part of its CSR programme under healthcare set up three mobile vision centres to strengthen the primary eye care services in the cities of Chennai, Kolkata, and Pune under its National Urban Eye Health Programme – Amrita Drishti.

September 2021

News / Eye health /

“MISSION ROSHNI” launched by Sightsavers & Government of Madhya Pradesh to prevent Blindness in Jhabua.

August 2021

Blogs / Eye health /

India is home to over 9 million truck drivers. Truck drivers play a significant role in transporting India’s freight; however their unorganised nature of work prohibits them to take their health issues seriously.

Shailendra Kumar, Deepshikha Sharma & Jatin Tiwari, July 2021

Blogs / Eye health /

India is home to the largest population of blind people in the world. Over 12 million people in India are blind, of which nearly 88% of the blindness was unavoidable.

Jatin Tiwari & Sayanti Bit, May 2021

News / Eye health /

Sightsavers India wins ICC Social Impact Award for Urban Eye Health Programme in Bihar

March 2021

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Standard Chartered Bank collaborates with Sightsavers to bring down prevalence of blindness in remote Sundarbans region of West Bengal

“The Sightsavers India Fellowship Program takes keen interest in a fellow’s growth,” Dr Anoop Kumar Singh, Sightsavers India Fellow, 2019 – 2021

Shanti Devi's story

Gaya Bai’s Story

Kodu’s Story

Sightsavers and SBI Capital Markets Limited join hands to prevent avoidable blindness in the cities of Chennai, Pune & Kolkata

“MISSION ROSHNI” launched by Sightsavers & Government of Madhya Pradesh to prevent Blindness in Jhabua.

RAAHI– Serving those that serve us

Rural Eye Health – An impact waiting to be achieved

Sightsavers India wins ICC Social Impact Award for Urban Eye Health Programme in Bihar

Protecting sight and fighting for disability rights