Jamshedpur: Jamshedpur Eye Hospital (JEH) kicked-off the New Year 2023 with the inauguration of its first ‘Satellite Mobile Eye Clinic on Van’ as part of its larger community outreach programme to eliminate avoidable visual impairment among the local population. JEH will also be starting its new software-assisted ‘Lazy Eye Therapy’, in collaboration of Bynocs Solution, in which selected cases of adult amblyopia, a condition leading to loss or lack of development of clear vision in one or both eyes, to treat by a six-week software assisted Video Gaming Program.
The inauguration of the new programmes and facilities took place today at a special event in the JEH complex. The event will saw presence of officials from the hospital, key members of the Rotary Club and officials from Tata Steel Foundation (TSF) and Tata Steel. The new ‘Satellite Mobile Eye Clinic on Van’ is being launched in collaboration with Rotary Club of Jamshedpur & TSF.
Chief Guest of the function Mrs Ruchi Narendran said, “JEH has been at the forefront of providing the best eye care services in the Jamshedpur area for more than six decades now. What started with a mission to provide comprehensive eye care services with utmost compassion, quality and affordability to all, is today a full-fledged super-specialist eye hospital in and around India’s Steel City. Over these many years, we have invested in the best in class eye care infrastructure, doctors and paramedics to eliminate all avoidable visual impairment in the local community we operate in. We are starting the new year with a host of new services with which we expect to reach out to more people and continue to improve the quality of our services and outcome in the years to come.”
Given the shortage of healthcare professionals especially the specialist-cadre and trained para-medics, JEH plans to establish itself as a ‘Teaching and Training Eye Centre’ to produce well-trained, efficient Ophthalmologists and Optometrists to serve the country and this region to reduce prevalence of blindness of India from 1.99% to 0.3%. JEH is already empanelled with Arka Jain University for providing one-year mandatory Internship training to the final year student of BSc. Optometry on selection basis. The hospital also plans to start the post-graduate fellowship training programme in cataract and other sub-specialties as well as start post-graduate DNB Teaching in Ophthalmology soon.
In 2022, JEH celebrated its Diamond Jubilee by inaugurating its newly constructed, state-of-art, NABH-compliance Modular OT Complex, Mechanized Laundry & CSSD facilities benchmarking us with the best Eye Care Organizations in the country. JEH has also augmented its academic infrastructure by adding classroom, webinar room and a library, well equipped with audio-visual conferencing system and modern teaching gadgets. JEH has been accredited with NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers), the highest quality accreditation certificate existing for any healthcare organisation in India in November 2022 for a period of three years.
The inauguration event was also graced by Mr Rakeshwar Pandey as Guest of Honour and Chanakya Chaudhary, Vice President, Corporate Services, Tata Steel. JEH Staff along with union and managing committee representatives, Ophthalmologist colleagues, senior officials of Tata Steel, Heads of our partner hospitals, Rotarians, NGOs were also present during the function.
