Indian oil centre for rural eye health opens in capital LVPEI
New Delhi   23-May-2016

LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on Thursday opened an Indian Oil Centre for Rural Eye Health here with an aim to provide solutions to visual impairment in rural areas of the State.

Indian Oil Corporation had offered an assistance of `2 crore to LVPEI as part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) contribution for setting up the Indian Oil Centre.

Inaugurating the facility, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan said this will be a nodal centre for advocacy, policy planning and implementation of quality eye health in rural Odisha. A memorandum of understanding was signed between IOCL and LVPEI, Bhubaneswar in March last year.

The facility located on LVPEI, Bhubaneswar campus will coordinate with secondary and primary eye care centres under the LVPEI community eye health and outreach services.

The community eye health programme aims to create awareness on eye care among rural people to reduce blindness and visual impairment.

The facility will work on the collected data from secondary centres to create district level quality eye care protocols, organise district school screening programme and visual impairment surveys in a systematic way.

Working in collaboration with the State Government and other like-minded eye care providers, the centre envisages to create Odisha vision atlas that will help in programme planning of quality eye care in the State, Pradhan said.