Table 2 Performance of community screening during year 2013–2014
From: The Barrie Jones Lecture—Eye care for the neglected population: challenges and solutions
Activity | Numbers |
|---|---|
Slums/villages surveyed by community eye care personnel | 613 |
Houses surveyed | 169 557 |
Population covered through door-to-door survey (vision screening at their doorsteps) | 590 534 |
People identified with eye problems and referred for management | 65 272 |
Community screening programmes organized | 731 |
People examined by vision technicians | 70 361 |
Prescribed spectacles | 25 769 |
Dispensed spectacles | 11 654 |
Referred to base hospital | 14 389 |
No. of awareness (information, education, and communication) programs conducted | 101 (2865 participants) |
Community-based rehabilitation for irreversibly visually impaired (includes training in orientation and mobility skills and activities of daily living, economic rehabilitation, certification and assistance for pension, travel concessions, scholarships, and other government services) | 690 |
