Kolkata : Akhand
Jyoti Eye Hospital today expanded its reach and inaugurated India's largest
charitable eye care hospital in rural areas at Srirameshpuram, Mastichak in
Saran district of Bihar. With the opening of this charitable eye care hospital,
the people of rural areas will get the facility of 80 percent subsidy in
treatment, while the needy and economically weaker sections of the society will
get free eye treatment. This charitable eye care hospital will provide
concessional treatment facilities to the common people and will also bring
employment opportunities at the rural level.
It is
noteworthy that one of the country's largest eye hospital with 500 beds, opened
in the remote village of Mastichak, is equipped with all the modern equipment
related to eye care, where 800 patients can be examined daily with the facility
of 10 OPDs. Apart from this, with the capacity of 11 operation theatres, and
500 surgeries can be performed daily. Also this hospital provides eye banking
facility and free services to the underprivileged. This is the only hospital in
the area where comprehensive facilities for eye care of children will be
available.
This
hospital with very modern facilities, opened especially in rural area, can
prove to be a milestone in the health sector. In this regard, Mritunjay Kumar
Tiwary, founder of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital, said that a state-of-the-art
hospital is being constructed rapidly in Mastichak. It will start serving
patients in December 2023 and along with the existing hospital will create a
capacity of more than 1 lakh 50 thousand surgeries annually. Our main objective
is to focus on employment and women empowerment with Charitable Eye Care
Hospital in rural areas.
Shri Tiwary said “Despite
the ill effects of Covid, this has been a year of achievements for Akhand
Jyoti. We have been successful in expanding surgical centers in Patna, Purnia,
Dalsinghsarai in Bihar and Ballia in Uttar Pradesh. This success boosts the
enthusiasm of our team and inspires it to move forward. We have now started
working on our Vision 2030 plan, an ambitious goal to perform 2 million
sight-restoring eye surgeries between 2022 and 2030 and triple our annual
outputs and impact in the two elements of our flagship ‘Football to Eyeball’
programme: eye health and girls education and empowerment.”
He said that
Akhand Jyoti has been working on innovation since its inception. We have been
able to provide high quality eye care to rural and remote areas, and are in the
process of continuous improvement. Akhand Jyoti has been working since 2005 to
empower young women from low-income groups with a focus on eye health.
He further
said that great personalities like Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, founder of
Gayatri Parivar, and Pandit Ramesh Chandra Shukla, co-founder of Akhand Jyoti,
inspire us to move forward. His influence has helped form the core of Akhand
Jyoti's focus on the poor and the needy. Along with this, he emphasized that
the financial year 2023-24 will prove to be an important year for Akhand Jyoti,
because perhaps we will achieve eye care with the construction of India's first
and largest modern charitable eye care centre in a rural area like Mastichak.
We will consider creating Akhand Jyoti 2.0 to have a wider impact in eye
education and research for health, girl education and empowerment.
On this
special occasion, Founder Mrityunjay Tiwary expressed his gratitude to all the
partners who supported this project, especially Sankara Eye Foundation, USA,
and Bajaj Finserv, Pune.
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