Eye Hospitals
Himalaya Eye Hospital was
established in 1993 at Gharipatan,
Pokhara of Kaski district. It is being
run under NNJS with the financial
support of Eyecare Foundation, the
Netherlands. As per the agreement
signed, the Eyecare Foundation, the
Netherlands provided 10% of total
operating cost as its contribution
towards hospital operation and
continued its full support for
community based activities, human
resource development, and
procurement for equipments and
instruments for the hospital.
The project "Strengthening
Eye Care Services in Nepal"
implemented by NNJS with
support of AOCA has recognized
Himalaya Eye Hospital as training
centre for Phaco-emulsification
Training to ophthalmologists and
refresher training to mid- level
ophthalmic manpower.
Giving continuity to the program
of previous years, Himalaya Eye
Hospital conducted surgical eye
camps in Djibouti, an East African
Nation in 2007. The camps were
organized in five provinces of the
country and altogether 720 surgeries
were performed. This is the highest
number of surgery ever performed
in a single series of camp in that
country.
Outpatients
Surgeries
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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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