Eye Hospital and Eye Care Activities
JYOTI EYE HOSPITAL

Jyoti Eye Hospital is the Best Eye Hospital working in block nokha, bikaner district of rajasthan state and doing maximum no. of surgeries in Bikaner. Urmul Jyoti Sansthan is doing eye care work with the initially support of Govt. of India, Sight Savers International and local peoples since 1999. Jyoti Eye Hospital is actively working since April 2002. This Hospital is known throughout the western state of Rajasthan and today earned a name and reputation through its quality treatment. This Hospital is one of the three flagship programs of Urmul Jyoti Sansthan set up its campus at Nokha,Bikaner where Patients are coming from all over the district and its surrounding area.
Here OPD is running seven days without off but surgery days are every Sunday and Wednesday. Through this hospital we completed successfully more than 50,000 Eye Surgeries up to today. Today it’s recognized through quality eye treatment (Eye surgery) and optic advice.
The Jyoti Eye Hospital today has 65 beds with a separate female ward, adequate flush toilets and Bathroom a complete hygienic condition. It has a state-of-the-art infrastructure with ultra Modern equipment like Operating Microscope, Slit lamp, Keratometer, , Yag laser, Funds Camera Auto Refractometer, Green Laser etc. Needless to say, the operation theater is at par excellence with air conditioning/heating facilities. Our skilled human resource include two eye surgeons and 7 Ophthalmic Assistant (paramedical), most of them residents and available. Another informative and demystifying facility which the hospital has incorporated is the live screening of the surgical process. This is done with the help of a LCD monitor which beams the operation live to viewers (attendants of the patients) so that they can understand the surgery process.
Owing to very hot and dry weather conditions, ophthalmologic (eye) problems like cataract and glaucomaare common in the region, especially among the elderly people. No wonder then that during any given week an average of about 90 surgeries for various sight disorders are conducted at Jyoti Eye Hospital (JEH) only. Surgeries are conducted every Sunday and Wednesday for which patients are admitted one day earlier. The hospital has residential facilities where patients are accommodated and are provided with food and medicines, free of cost or at very nominal cost Patients are encouraged to pay around 70% of the total cost of surgery while spectacles are charged at a nominal price.
 Note worthy to mention, patients from very poor economic background are treated free of cost. Surgeries aside, the hospital also witnesses a huge rush of patients in the out-patient department (OPD). During any week more than 700 totally walking patients visit our OPD.

Fellow-up and field activities of eye care work

We have field a team for fellow-up operated patients in JEH and also running screening camps for new patients. In this team we have 8 members including 2 Outreach premedical staff and through this team is we are doing different activities at ground level for eye care awareness eye screening camps etc. Mainly activities are as under-

1. Outreach eye screening camps.
2.  Vision canter.
3. Health worker (ASHAs ANM And Aaganwadi worker) Training 
4. Publicity about eye care diseases and treatment at first level.
5. Operated patients follow up and visit for aaganwadi centre, schools screening, primary health canter( PHc and CHc)

These include organizing Diagnostic camps are conducted in the villages on an average of 6 to 8 per month or as and when deemed necessary. The area of conduction of such camps includes all villages in the Bikaner district. During such camps all residents of the villages are invited to attend the camp which not only involves free eye check up but also information on proper eye care. These camps are essential in identifying the kinds of eye ailments afflicting the rural population, their causes as well as the approximate number of people afflicted with such problems. Those identified with eye ailments are advised to come to the Jyoti Eye Hospital at Nokha for further treatment. We also do refraction for patients who they have RE and give them spectacle.
On the other hand these camps are also a tool of maintaining contact with the village people and gaining ground among them and familiarizing the people with the institution as well as the other way around. Other problems of the people also surface in these camps.
The school screening camps are organized on an average of 20 schools a month. During such screening programs those children with eye problems are identified and the hospital then undertakes to treat these children with proper care and surgery if required. It has emerged that 5 % of the school children have been diagnosed to suffer from cataract, especially traumatic cataract. The youngest patient the hospital has had so far is a 4 year old child. Besides, the hospital also holds day long training for teachers in the schools. This training is on primary eye health care.

Sno	Particulars	Male	Female	Boys	Girls	Total
1	OPD	866	708	245	272	2091
2	Refer for Cataract	131	113	0	1	245
3	Refraction	228	185	26	39	478
4	Spectacles	186	145	20	39	390
5	Medicine & Other	507	410	219	232	1368

Vision centres:

:As part of the outreach program, Jyoti eye hospital has established two vision centres, one at Village Jasrasar, 40kms to the east and the other at Panchu, 35kms to the west of Nokha.Each center is staffed with one paramedic with proper instruments to diagnose the patients. First-aid related to eye care is provided on-spot and others are referred to the Jyoti hospital, where they are thoroughly examined and accordingly treated. Vision centers remain open two days a week-Tuesday and Saturday. Follow up: All patients treated at JEH, especially those who undergo surgery, are called for a follow -up in a week`s time. This activity is an indicator of the success rate of our surgical procedures. The beneficiaries themselves state that the success rate is nothing less than 100%.

Sno	Particulars	Male	Female	Boys	Girls	Total
1	OPD	365	467	103	107	1042
2	Refer for Cataract	54	35	0	0	89
3	Refraction	85	110	30	41	266
4	Medicine & Other	226	322	73	56	677

Health worker (ASHAs ANM And Aaganwadi worker) Training

Sno	Particulars	Napasar	Kuchor aathuni	Himmatsar	Palana	Nathusar	Badhnu
1	ASHAs ANM	0	0	14	25	19	17
2	Aanganwadi Workers	36	24	0	0	0	0
3	Total	36	24	14	25	19	17

Special Activities about eye heath care-

Social Impact

• Here all patients come on their own unlike other hospitals where they are to be brought on vehicles for charity that is people believe in us.
  
•  Patients are not forced to contribute but still even after the inception of it after 15 years it is still so able to work on its own without any external help.
  
• Quality is the most criteria at hospital and is never compromised which has created such a goodwill of it in the state.
  
• Here the 3rd follow-up is still up to 90% of initial unlike other charity hospitals.
  
• It has created a lot of awareness in the minds of people towards eye care such that people who were not aware and concerned about these earlier are themselves coming on their own for the treatment.
  
• Now we can say people taking eye disease on priority basis and they wants to spend money on eye care,due to our continue 15 years work in rural area.
  
• Eye care or eye surgeries shift from camp tradition to base hospital. Now people are not waiting for winter session for eye operation even in summer ( May-June)people are also continue coming for surgeries.
  
• Now spectacle wear culture is also developed. As per our hospital OPD after refraction 20%patients wear continue spectacle after prescription

Data of Surgeries Over the years