Health
State to adopt universal eye care program
In Odisha, Drusti Daan, a voluntary organization facilitating and promoting eye donation has been able to ensure 5000 cornea collection in the last 15 years and over 1000 cornea donations a year. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in his speech at a function organized to celebrate this accomplishment of the state announced that the state government plans to develop an Universal Eye Care Programme. He said, "Necessary institutional mechanism will be set up for screening and providing free treatment to all persons with treatable and curable causes of blindness along with rehabilitative services of the child." Focusing on the use of technology under the programme, Naveen said, that an eye health web portal will be created to allow all individuals to register with eye problems so that they can be issued eye health cards for further follow-up action.
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