RAIGANJ, March 18: North Dinajpur police in collaboration with Kaliyaganj Lions’ club and the Indian Medical Association of Raiganj has initiated a move to conduct a massive eye treatment camp for the aged residents below the poverty line living under Kaliyaganj police station of North Dinajpur district. The camp will have the facilities to operate on the cataract of these aged persons and spectacles will also be distributed free of cost to these people below poverty line.
With an objective to make this mission successful a committee named “Chokher alo”has been recently formed and Mr Dilip Talukder IC Kaliyaganj police station has been made the convenor of the committee.
Announcements are being made in villages to inform the people of the eye treatment camp initiated by the North Dinajpur police for the aged people below poverty line.
The North Dinajpur police super Mr SB Purnapatra said: “Recently we came to know that a good number of aged people in Kaliyaganj are suffering from eye diseases including cataract. Most of them have lost their eye sight. These people are unable to bear the medical expenses for the treatment of their diseases. “Therefore, we recently formed a social welfare organisation “chokheralo” and decided to treat these people free of cost. We have collected funds from the residents of Kaliyaganj. Both the Kaliyaganj Lions’ club and IMA Raiganj unit have been included in this committee. All the gram panchayat members, health assistants and anganwadi workers have been involved in the process of preparing eye treatment cards for these people below poverty line.
“Already such treatment cards have been distributed among 7000 aged residents of 197 villages in Kaliyaganj .Their eye- screening will be held on 29, 30 and 31 March on the premises of Kaliyaganj police station and the cataract operations will take place on 3, 5 and 6 April in Kaliyaganj Lion’s hospital. The spectacles will be distributed among them later.By this massive eye camp we want to prove that police are friend to the society. This work will also inculcate a good spirit among the police force,” added Mr Purnapatra.
Source: The Statesman