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Prevention of Blindness |
Since 1998,
Islamic Relief (Pakistan) has
been contributing in countrywide
efforts for prevention of
blindness through organizing
cataract surgical camps mostly
in the remote and
underprivileged areas of
Pakistan. As cataract is the
major cause of blindness in
Pakistan (66%), Islamic Relief
has been targeting this blinding
calamity as the priority area
for its community based eye care
interventions.
Islamic Relief is targeting this
blinding calamity as the
priority area for community
based eye care interventions. So
far:
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84 camps organized
(up to 2005) mostly
in the remote and
deprived areas |
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More than 100,000
people screened in these
camps |
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More than 8000
cataract surgeries
carried out |
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Free medicines/
glasses provided to
those detected with
common eye ailments or
refractive errors
(defective vision
correctable with
glasses) |
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Following Table presents
the Camps details
arranged so far by
Prevention of Blindness
Programme: |
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Year |
No. of camps |
OPD |
Operations |
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Cataract surgeries |
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IOL |
ECCE |
Minor |
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1998 |
9 |
17,770 |
565 |
306 |
0 |
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1999 |
9 |
12,846 |
468 |
259 |
46 |
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2000 |
18 |
24,038 |
1083 |
899 |
172 |
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2001 |
6 |
8,263 |
366 |
194 |
50 |
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2002 |
15 |
22,798 |
900 |
134 |
62 |
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2003 |
5 |
6,220 |
325 |
100 |
36 |
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2004 |
11 |
13,903 |
970 |
202 |
60 |
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2005 |
11 |
11,635 |
1042 |
114 |
83 |
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Total |
84 |
117,473 |
7,927 |
509 |
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Programme Objective |
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Focus on efforts to eliminate
avoidable blindness through a
comprehensive Prevention of
Blindness Programme. |
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Islamic Relief Plans |
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To expand the spectrum of eye
care services to include: |
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Establishment
of Comprehensive Eye Care (CEC) cells (eye
hospitals with sufficient trained manpower
and technology) in all the four provinces of
Pakistan & Azad Kashmir. Areas will be
selected on the basis of needs assessment |
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School
screening programme for providing refraction
services to the children with refractive
errors (defective vision correctable with
glasses) |
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Primary
Eye Care (PEC) training to Primary Health
Care (PHC) staff thereby enabling them to
identify, treat or refer the common eye
ailments |
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Rehabilitation
services (mobility, daily living skills and
vocational training) for incurably blinds or
severely visually impaired persons |
Awareness
and health education campaigns to create
awareness among community individuals for
adopting healthy eye care habits
POB opening new frontiers :
So far POB has taken following steps keeping
in view the above mentioned plans:
Establishing
a comprehensive eye care cell (eye hospital
with sufficient technology and trained
manpower) at Nushki, Balouchistan in
collaboration with Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal (PBM)
in 2006
Establishment
of IR welfare eye hospital in a slum area
(with congested poor population) of District
Rawalpindi namely “Khayaban-e-Sir Sayyed
during the first quarter of 2006.
School
screening programme to provide refractive
services (standard procedure for testing
defective vision correctable with glasses
and provision of spectacle prescription/free
glasses) in the slum areas of District
Rawalpindi
Organizing
one day screening camps within and in the
surrounding areas of District Rawalpindi to
provide at the spot treatment for common eye
ailments and surgical treatment of those
selected for cataract surgery in the IR eye
hospital in Khayaban
Primary
Eye Care (PEC) training workshops for
Primary Health Care (PHC) staff working at
rural level
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Islamic Relief Wishes |
To create strong linkages with
other stake holders in public &
private sectors to jointly
support the above mentioned
community based eye care
activities and in turn achieving
the goals of “Vision 2020”,
the Right to Sight.
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Please Donate! |
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Prevention of Blindness Programme Needs Your Support! |
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Relief (IR) through its Prevention of
Blindness (POB) programme is committed
to providing eye care and treatment
mainly to the under privileged and poor.
Islamic Relief has been providing so far
100% free of cost services to all the
beneficiaries. As evident from the above
mentioned plans, Al-Hamdulillah! the
spectrum of POB programme is now getting
broader and broader. Hence, IR with its
limited resources and budgetary
constraints needs support from other
donor agencies or philanthropists in the
form of zakat, Sadaqat or Atiyat to
accomplish the future plans. |
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Your contribution means the gift of
sight for someone in need! |
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A donation of 50 $
or Rs. 3000 will help to
restore the eyesight of
a poor patient with
cataract |
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The cost of one
cataract screening camp
ranges from Rs.15,000 to
20,000 (depending upon
the logistical cost) |
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The cost of one
school screening visit
along with provision of
free glasses ranges from
Rs. 8,000 – 10,000 |
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The cost required
for establishing a
comprehensive eye care
cell in an
underprivileged area
(including 2 years
recurrent cost) along
with a network of
community based
services, component
(please see the map on
the next page) is
approximately 350,000 US
$ or Rs. 21,000,000 |
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Please send your
Donations in the form of DD , TC , Pay
Order , Money Orders , Bank Draft or in
Cash directly to :
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ISLAMIC RELIEF PAKISTAN
House 85 , Street 59 , Sector F 11/4 , Islamabad Pakistan , Post Code 44000
Email: info@irp.org.pk |
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Donations can
be deposited in any branch of
Union Bank:
ACCOUNT NO: 5801 - 499773 -
050
Union Bank Pakistan
Phone : ( 051 ) 211 4212-6 (
Islamic Relief Pakistan ) |
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For Further
Information regarding Donations
, please contact : |
Syed M. Arif
Resource Mobilization Coordinator
Resource Mobilization
Department, Islamic Relief
Pakistan
Phone: +92(051)211 4212-6
Cell : +92(0302)8110042
Email:
arif.syed@irp.org.pk
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