{"id":769,"date":"2007-10-11T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=769"},"modified":"2007-10-11T13:27:41","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T17:27:41","slug":"lv-prasad-eye-institute-adds-three-specialized-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/769","title":{"rendered":"LV Prasad eye institute adds three specialized centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newindpress.com\/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20071011025812&amp;Page=Q&amp;Headline=Specialised+eye+care+centres+open+at+LVPEI&amp;Title=ORISSA&amp;Topic=0\">a report in the New Indian Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bhubaneswar: &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvpei.org\/beicenter.html\">L V Prasad Eye Institute here<\/a> on Wednesday opened three new specialised eye centres. They are \u2018Centre for diabetic eye disease,\u2019 \u2018Centre for sight enhancement\u2019 and \u2018Eye trauma centre.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; The \u2018Centre for diabetic eye disease\u2019 would play a critical role in attending to diabetic patients suffering from visual disability. It is estimated that about 5.7 million people in India alone suffer from \u2018diabetic retinopathy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is preventable and can be treated. All that a diabetic individual needs to do is consult a physician in such centre for annual retinal examination and early detection of diabetic retinopathy. Such a step would significantly reduce the risk of visual loss in diabetic individuals.<\/p>\n<p>National Thermal Power Corporation has donated about Rs 2 crore for setting up the three centres. The \u2018Centre for sight enhancement\u2019, similarly, promises quality treatment for children suffering from low vision. Estimate suggests that about 2.70 lakh children in India suffer from this defect.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, congenital conditions such as \u2018hereditary macular degeneration,\u2019 \u2018congenital glaucoma\u2019 and \u2018congenital eye\u2019 anomalies account for the majority of visual impairment seen in children.<\/p>\n<p>With the opening of the \u2018Eye trauma centre\u2019, the hospital aims to provide a comprehensive one stop care to patients with eye injury. Over a period of time, the institute plans to extend this to a 24X7 service, as in most of the accident cases, one needs immediate treatment to salvage the vision.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion, L V Prasad Eye Institute director Dr T P Das said the institute is contemplating to set up a school for eye care professionals in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The institute provides 25 percent of outpatient services and 40 percent surgeries free of cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from a report in the New Indian Express. Bhubaneswar: &#8230; L V Prasad Eye Institute here on Wednesday opened three new specialised eye centres. They are \u2018Centre for diabetic eye disease,\u2019 \u2018Centre for sight enhancement\u2019 and \u2018Eye trauma centre.\u2019 &#8230; The \u2018Centre for diabetic eye disease\u2019 would play a critical role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,109,101,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-cuttack-puri","category-healthcare-and-hospitals","category-hrd-n-education-details-at-orissawatchorg","category-district-khordha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}