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Matching Grant #54719
Cataract Surgery Project
Bidar, India District 3160 |
Matching Grant 54719 was the fourth project between various clubs in District 3160 in India and District 6060. This project was sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Bidar, India, in the northern portion of the state of Karnataka. The international sponsor was the Rotary Club of Cottleville/Weldon Spring, Missouri. Funding was supplied by the Rotary Club of Bidar, the Avoidable Blindness Donor Advised Fund and Rotary Districts 6060-eastern Missouri, and 6710-western Kentucky.
This $30,000 project funded 1,000 surgeries to remove cataracts from poor blind people and to place intra-ocular lens implants, giving the patients good vision again. |
 The 30-year old woman to the right developed mature cataracts in both eyes at her sixth month of pregnancy. Her husband abandoned her, but thankfully she was taken in and cared for by her brother's family. Her baby is now five months old and her brother has brought her to an eye screening camp organized by Rotary.
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Here she is immediately after surgery.
The cataract has been removed from her right eye and a new lens implanted.
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 Naturally, the first thing she wants to do is examine her baby that she has not been able to see for the last five months. |
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Pre-surgery tests are being run by the ophthalmology resident,
certifying these patients are ready for surgery. |
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Over 200 poor blind people showed up at a rural screening camp,
organized to select patients for surgery, funded by MG 54719. |
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Most of these blind patients will have their vision back by nightfall.
Their pink papers certify they have passed their pre-surgery tests
and other surgery preparations. |
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Ophthalmologist PDG Dr. Umesh Megur introduces DGSC
Dr. Todd Lindley to two blind women on the morning
before their surgeries. They have both been blind for
over 12 years and have been abandoned by their families. |
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The following day, Dr. Megur brings DGSC Lindley back
to see the women before their are released. Their surgeries
were both successful. Their level of vision is excellent.
It was a struggle to get them to stay seated for just a
moment to take the picture. They were very interested in
walking around the clinic and examining every little thing. |
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