Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital Rawalpindi has treated over 38,000 patients in 64 different eye camps in the last four months under its community outreach programme.
The free camps were organised in far flung areas where such medical facilities were not available. Camps in areas of Kashmir, including Azad Pattan and Palandari, in KPK’s Jalozai and Nowshera, in Punjab’s Shamsabad, Domail, Jand, Attock, Malluwali, Lehar Sultanpur Chakwal, Naseera Tehsil Kharian, Jatli, Gojar Khan, Chak 36 and Chak 101, Sargodha, Bhera, Chamra Kallar Kahar, Malkair, Haripur, Khohar, Sarai Alamgeer, Kokal village of Havelian and in Sindh’s Sukkur area have been set up.
The authorities at Al-shifa Trust said that the purpose of conducting free camps was to provide eye care facilities to the needy and poor at their doorstep.
The hospital had increased the number of free eye camps, keeping in view the number of increasing eye patients in Pakistan.
According to Col Tariq Usman, director of Al-shifa community care ophthalmology, over 2000 patients were referred to Al-shifa Trust Eye Hospital Rawalpindi for subspecialty clinics and further checkups.
“A record number of patients have been treated in a time span of 4 months,” he said.
