Free Cataract Surgery: Cataract is an eye disease that gradually blurs the vision and eventually makes one blind. 62 percent of the patients suffering from eye diseases in India are suffering from this disease. This disease is especially common among people above 45 years of age. However, the good thing is that after cataract surgery, the vision returns and the even better thing is that successful treatment of cataract is available in India and its surgery is also being done free of cost.
Under the National Blindness Prevention Program of the Government of India, free cataract surgery is being done in district hospitals across the country. Not only this, the country’s top eye care centers or big eye hospitals are also doing cataract surgery free of cost. Whereas in private hospitals, this surgery costs from Rs 20 thousand to Rs 1.25 lakh.
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Let us tell you that 62.6 percent of the people suffering from eye diseases in India are suffering from cataract only. If you also want to get free treatment for cataract in your eyes, then you can get this surgery done for free in any district hospital near you. If you want to get it done in big hospitals, then today we are giving you information about the top 5 eye hospitals of the country, where this surgery is free or a very low charge is levied.
Shankar Eye Hospital
Shankar Eye Hospital, which has 14 branches in different parts of the country, offers free cataract surgery. Bharat Bala Subramanyam, President Operations of the hospital, says that apart from BPL card holders, patients coming from the 100 outreach camps organised every week are given 100% free treatment. Those who can afford a little are given subsidy in treatment. Apart from cataract, the hospital has so far performed 25 lakh free surgeries for pediatric cataract, retina surgery, retinoblastoma, eye cancer. This hospital has a total of 13 branches in Anand, New Bombay, Tamil Nadu, Guntur, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Indore, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Karnataka and Varanasi.
HV Desai Charitable Hospital
HV Desai Eye Charitable Hospital Pune performs 50,000 surgeries every day, 50% of which are completely free. The hospital’s Chief Medical Director Rahul Deshpande says that patients coming from outreach camps who have BPL cards are provided with free accommodation, food, transportation, operation and medicines. It also has 35 vision centers, where specialist doctors from the hospital itself treat patients with the latest technology equipment. Surgeries are free here, but if someone wants to wear foreign lenses, he is given treatment at 60-70% subsidy on market rate. Cataract surgery is done here for just Rs 7200.
Aravind Eye Hospital
In Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, 50% of cataract surgeries are completely free and the rest are subsidized. Senior faculty R Suresh Kumar said that the hospital has a record of treating 24 lakh eye patients within a year. This hospital has seven tertiary centers where all diseases are treated. Aravind Hospital also has four eye banks built by itself, where cornea, retina etc. can be donated. This hospital has so far treated the eyes of 7 crore 80 lakh people and has done 94 lakh surgeries.
RP Centre, AIIMS New Delhi
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, New Delhi, located in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences campus in Delhi, is the most prestigious eye hospital in the country. Cataract surgery is completely free here. Professor Praveen Vashisht of the Department of Community Ophthalmology at the RP Centre says that the community facilities of the RP Centre are completely free. Patients referred from 17 vision centres are given completely free treatment and food at the RP Centre. AIIMS, which has the latest and modern eye care facilities, can also get treatment for eye diseases by coming to the hospital offline apart from online appointments.
LV Prasad Eye Institute
LV Prasad Eye Institute of Hyderabad works as an ocular tissue engineering research center along with eye care facilities. It has three other centers in Bhubaneswar, Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada. It is the largest network hospital with more than 275 primary eye care centers. In this hospital, excellent treatment of ophthalmic plastic surgery, cataract surgery, ocular oncology, various types of surgeries, squint etc. is done free of cost or at very low cost.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 31, 2024, 19:14 IST
