The project will provide free eye-care, including cataract surgery, spectacles and eye check-up to all. The name and logo was decided by CM herself.
Just ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is introducing popular schemes in the state. One such project is the 'Chokher Alo' scheme that will ensure cataract operations for senior citizens and eye treatment for all for free, over the next five years. It kick started from Tuesday.
The project will provide free eye-care, including cataract surgery, spectacles and eye check-up to all. The name and logo of the project was decided by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself.
"We are launching a project from January 5 under which at least 2 million poor and elderly people can undergo free cataract surgery. We would also provide free spectacles to around 8 lakh 25 thousand people," the chief minister said while speaking to media persons from the state secretariat.
Free eye check-up would be provided to 10 lakh students in government schools across the state and around four lakh students would be provided with free glasses. Children visiting anganwadi centres can also get free eye check-up, so that eye problems could be detected at an early stage.
More than 300 eye surgeons and around 400 optometrists would be working on this project.
"In the first phase starting Tuesday, camps would be held in around 1,200 villages and around 120 primary health centres in cities and towns in the state. Later all villages, towns and cities would be brought under the project," she added.
The first phase from Tuesday will cover 1,200 gram panchayats and 120 urban primary health centres. The next two phases will cover the remainder.
Mamata Banerjee also inaugurated an advanced trauma-care facility equipped with modern infrastructure and facilities at North Bengal Medical College and Hospital. The Rs 10-crore unit will have 20 beds, two operation theatres and a 10-bed recovery room.
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