Eye Hospitals
- Palpa Lions Lacoul Eye Hospital
Shree Rana Ambika Shah Eye
Hospital of Bhairhawa, extended
the eye care service at a very
primary level in Tansen, Palpa
in 1986 in a small room of
Government District Hospital.
Initially, it was running a weekly
clinic on every Friday. After a few
months, the service was expanded
to 5 days a week.
Dr. Ram Prasad Pokhrel, Chairman
of NNJS, inaugurated the hospital
building on13 October, 2004 and
the clinic started to run its service as
an eye hospital named Palpa Lions
Lacoul Eye Hospital. This hospital
provides services to eye patients
in Palpa and the six surrounding
districts.
Outpatients
- Total Patients: 15611
- New Patients: 11148
- Follow up Patients: 4463
- Indian Patients: 15
- Nepalese Patients: 15596
Surgeries
- Cataract (adult): 424
- Paediatric Cataract: 2
- Dacryocystectomy: 1
- Others: 114
- Total surgeries: 541
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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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