Due to the increased percentage of blinds in the state of Rajasthan, the government of India included the state, along with 6 other states, in the blindness control project of the World Bank in year 1994. According to this project, there is a provision of spending Rs. 65.2 crores. The aim was to reduce the 2.24% of blindness to 0.3% by the year 2001. Currently, this percentage is 1.27.
Achievements of the program during the years 1994-2002
- Establishment and registration of State Blindness Control Society.
- Establishment of registration of District Blindness Control Society in all 32 districts of Rajasthan.
- Upliftment of ophthalmologic department of all the six medical colleges by providing instruments and devices.
- The 19 District hospitals and 228 Primary health centers have been uplifted and provided with resources.
- All the eye specialists of each and every medical college and district hospital are to be given the training for eye transplant (E.C.C.E/I.O.L). till now 108 eye specialists have been trained.
- Camps for the cataract operation are being organized unanimously by different social service groups, district blindness control society and district mobile units for the residents of the far off places .the social service groups are given Rs 400/- for the cataract operation and Rs 600/-for lens transplant .In the eye camps this money is used to provide free medicines ,lodging facility as well as glasses to the patients. static centers has been made at 75 places where eye operations are done at scheduled dates.
- According to the program there is an aim to build 44 operation theaters,44 beded wards and 296 dark rooms.out of which 44 operation theaters and 44 wards have been constructed by the housing society .the construction of dark rooms in 204 places has also been completed.
