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Free eye check-up camp held for 250 in Tambaram
SOS Children's Villages India and Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospital held a free eye check-up camp in Tambaram, Chennai, on August 22. About 150 children and 100 residents from vulnerable families covered under…
SOS Children's Villages India and Dr. Agarwals Eye Hospital held a free eye check-up camp in Tambaram, Chennai, on August 22. About 150 children and 100 residents from vulnerable families covered under the NGO's Family Strengthening Programme were screened for weak eyesight, colour blindness, and lazy eye.
A team of doctors and clinical coordinators from the hospital provided consultations and preventive care advice. The Chennai programme, launched in 2009 with 75 families, aims to help families achieve self-reliance and prevent child abandonment, according to a press release.
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SOS Children's Villages runs family-strengthening programmes in over 130 countries including India, where it has supported more than 60,000 children. The Tambaram camp is a low-cost screening model that relies entirely on partner hospitals. India’s National Programme for Control of Blindness estimates that 1.1 crore children have visual impairment that remains undetected. Without periodic school- and community-based camps, such conditions in poorer families often go unnoticed until they become irreversible. The next concrete signal to watch is whether SOS Children's Villages announces a replication of this model in other Chennai suburbs, where the density of vulnerable families is similar.
Source: thehindu.com
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