Lions Eye Hospital doing yeoman service in Jorhat since 1997

A Correspondent

JORHAT: Lions Eye Hospital is giving a yeomen service to the poor of the poorest since 1997 and has completed over 50,000 cataract operations. About 70 per cent patients are treated free of cost and out of 50,000 operations which have been performed successfully, 35,000 cataract operation was performed alone by Dr. Pulokesh Bhagawati, the chief medical officer of Lions Eye Hospital, said Hriday Bora, a member of the publicity wing of Lions Club on Thursday.

In the last two years, a number of eye operations in the hospital has been on the rise. Out of 50,000 operated patients, 70 percent of them were done free of cost. “The hospital is always trying to cater services to patients, basically from the economically poor class. So far the hospital has completed over 2,000 eye camps in Jorhat, Majuli, Titabor, Mariani, Teok, Golaghat, Sivasagar, Jhajimukh, Borhula and Dimapur. We even go to interior places along the border belts of Nagaland, Dimapur and Sivasagar,” said Dr. Bhagawati, the chief medical officer of Lions Eye Hospital, Jorhat while interacting with a section of visiting journalists.

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