The objective of Ganga Mata Charitable Eye Hospital is to provide state of the art Ophthalmic and Dental care to patients from every socio-economic strata. To achieve this, the hospital undertakes activities in the following ways :
Community ophthalmology & dentistry with weekly camps in remote villages with base hospital approach for conducting operations wherein the patients are brought to the hospital and operated. To & fro transportation, accommodation, food & medicines are provided free of cost.
School health camps wherein school children are checked for Eye & Dental ailments and vitamin 'A' is distributed amongst them.
We are active partners in Rotary International’s Operation Eye Sight Universal and carrying out Cataract Surgeries under this programme.
Rural and outreach areas of District Hardwar are especially targeted as our medical team visits villages every week to provide treatment to patients attending the camps. Those who have cataract or other surgical problems are brought to the hospital and operated with the latest techniques and IOL implantation is done and later they are sent back to their respective places by hospital's conveyance. It is to be mentioned here that the transportation, accommodation, food, medicines apart from the IOL operation are all done totally free of cost. These activities are carried out under the auspices of District Blindness Control Society, which is a part of the National Scheme for Prevention and Control of blindness.
Visual disability is one of the major public health problems in the world, not only because of the high number of blind persons in the developing world, but also because of the social, cultural, economic and educational factors, influencing the loss of vision.
Estimates suggest that there are 11 million blind persons in India with a visual acuity of less than 6/60 in the better eye with the usual spectacle correction. The majority of them can be cured by simple procedures such as cataract surgery or use of spectacles. However, a significant number of these persons do not receive services.
National Programme of Control of Blindness was launched in 1976 as a 100% centrally sponsored programme with the goal to reduce the prevalence of blindness from 1.4% to 0.3%. The various activities under the programme are undertaken by the Central Government, the state Governments and the Districts. At the District level District Blindness Control Society is the main agency for providing the blindness control services