Puthalath Eye Hospital

Community outreach programme in association with Mahatma Eye Research Foundation (MERF) is an integral part of our hospital which takes eye care services to the door step of the community. This fulfils our vision of providing quality eye care to everyone. Apart from this it also serve to educate the local community on eye care. Our primary goal is to fight against preventable and curable blindness through this programme. We would like to ensure that not a single person goes blind due to absence of timely and proper care at community level. We conduct regular screening camps in and around our locality as well as in remote and rural areas. Patients are screened for refractive error, cataract, glaucoma, retinal disorders etc and are referred to our respective departments for specialised care. We also conduct school eye screening programmes to screen children as well as educate teacher about eye care in children. We had carried out totally 173 free eye camps spanning in 4 districts of Kerala-Calicut, Malappuram , Kannur and Wayanad with the help of Mahatma Eye Research Foundation. For the last four and half years, approximately 24,000 patients had been consulted at the camps attended by the people from different walks of life. We have the privilege of conducting the school screening for school children between 7 to 17 years , the concept named ‘ I SEE ‘ Project was launched at the district level screened 36,000 school students in and around Calicut. We, in association with Mahatma Eye Research Foundation, have started a new initiative “ Drug Bank ” to provide glaucoma medication for glaucoma patients free of cost. This drug bank opens every day morning to evening. Any glaucoma patients with prescription and BPL Card or the document proves the BPL category can avail medicines from our drug bank. This type of initiative is first in this field.

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