Eye Hospitals
- Geta Eye Hospital
Geta Eye Hospital was established
with the financial support from
NORAD, Norway in 1981, and
it became fully operational from
November 1982. Right now, It is
one of the financially self-sustained
hospital with appreciable patient
care. INFIL Foundation, Norway is
supporting since January 2005 in
some of its activities.
This hospital is providing service to
the patients of Far Western Region
of Nepal as well as patients from
Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal of
Nothern India.
To meet the target (75% reduction
of cataract backlog) of its five year
plan (2005-2009), this hospital is
organizing surgical and screening
camps in different parts of this
region with support from different
organizations and also from its own
source.
Outpatients
- New Patients: 88,530
- Follow Up Patients: 9,156
- Indian Patients: 27,861
- Nepalese Patients: 69,825
- Total Patients: 97,686
Surgeries
- Cataract (adult) 18,250
- Paediatric Cataract Surgeries: 35
- Vitreoretinal surgeries: 0
- Trabeculectomy: 135
- Dacryocystorhinostomy: 169
- Others: 1,487
- Total surgeries: 20,076
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- December 6 2011
Two separate Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) were signed on December 5, 2011 by the Embassy of India, Kathmandu with Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) for providing grant assistance of NRs. 4.42 crores to NNJS for eye care programme in various districts of Nepal during the year 2011-2012. The MOU will cover the cost of conducting over 15,000 cataract surgeries and also provide over 9,300 optical devices to vision impaired children through mobile screening camps to be held in various schools of Nepal as a ‘National Eye Sight Programme’. India will provide additional assistance of NRs. 0.18 crores for conducting 1000 Trachoma surgeries to the NNJS during the year 2011-2012.
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