National Programme for Control of Blindness

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• National Programme for Control of Blindness

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NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CONTROL OF BLINDNESS

• India was the first country to launch a National
  Program for Control of Blindness in 1976.
• State Government of Gujarat started
  implementation of this programme in 1978.
• Gujarat is committed to reduce the burden of
  avoidable needless blindness by the year 2020,
  adopting the strategy advocated for Vision 2020
  The Right to Sight with the aim To intensify
  and accelerate present prevention of blindness
  activities so as to achieve the goal of
  eliminating avoidable blindness by the year 2020.

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NATIONAL PROGRAMME FOR CONTROL OF BLINDNESS

• Objectives
• To reduce the prevalence rate of blindness from
  0.9 to 0.3 by 2020
• To maintain the CSR above 1300 per 1 Lakh
  population
• To reduce the prevalence rate of blindness due to
  diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma corneal diseases
• To reduce the prevalence rate of pediatric
  blindness due to refractive error, congenital
  cataract, congenital glaucoma, corneal
  blindness
• To make high quality eye care services affordable
  and accessible to each person of community
• To strengthen primary eye care services, School
  Eye Screening and Eye donation activities by
  developing partnership between government, NGOs
  local community agencies
• To implement revised Grant In Aid policy for
  NGOs in Cataract, Diabetic retinopathy, Glaucoma
  Corneal Diseases

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Eye Care Infrastructure
RIO
Medical Colleges
District Hospitals
Sub District Hospitals
Vision Centers
NGO Base Hospitals
Eye Banks
Eye Donation Centers
Optometry Schools
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ACTIVITIES UNDER NPCB

• Cataract Surgery
• School Eye Screening Programme
• Eye Banking
• Co-ordination with NGOs and Private Sector
• Diabetic Retinopathy, Glaucoma, Childhood
  Blindness Corneal Diseases
• Preparation of Village Blind Register
• IEC activities
• Training of Ophthalmic Surgeon, Ophthalmic
  Assistant, Medical Officers, ASHA and Paramedical
  workers

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CATARACT

• Gujarat has achieved more than 100 of cataract
  surgery since 1997 1998.
• During the decade of eighties, the total cataract
  operations being performed in Gujarat State were
  only 75000 to 100000 per year. Now it has
  increase to 800000.
• Gujarat is also achieving the highest Cataract
  Surgery Rate (CSR) per one lack population
  consistently for the last seven years.
• The CSR has been increase from 383 / lakh
  population in 1994 - 1995 to 1309 in the year
  2012 2013.

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Performance of Cataract Surgeries (2007-08 to
2012 13)
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Performance of Intra Ocular Surgeries
(IOL)(2007-08 to 2012 13)
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School Health Programme

• Approximately 6 to 7 of children in the age
  group between 6 to 14 years found to be having
  Eye problems.
• The common causes are refractive errors, Vita. A
  def., corneal opacity, cataract, Glaucoma etc.
• Govt. of Gujarat has launched and successfully
  doing well in School Health Programme since last
  5 years.
• This programme is running with the co-ordination
  of primary education department.
• One teacher from each primary school preferably
  ladies teacher wearing the glass is trained for
  primary eye examination of the school children.
• In the year 2012 2013, 9455 teachers have been
  trained under NPCB programme.
• Increase in the number of free distribution of
  quality spectacles from 10000 to 180000 in last
  decade has shown the commitment of paramedical
  non-medical agencies at the grass root level.

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Performance in School Eye Screening Programme
(2008 2009 to 2012 2013)
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Eye Banking

• Eye donation activities have been also increased
  in last five years.
• There are 36 registered Eye banks under Human
  Organ Transplantation Act in Gujarat.
• Every year a fortnight from 25th August to 8th
  September is celebrated for promotion of Eye
  donation campaign.

No. Year Target Eye Donated
1. 2008 2009 8000 6468
2. 2009 2010 8500 6483
3. 2010 2011 9000 7782
4. 2011 2012 9200 8213
5. 2012 2013 9200 8066
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