ALL EYES ON THE INDUS HOSPITAL

Feb 04,2010

In November 2009, the Indus hospital expanded its list of services provided by including one more discipline under its wing -- The hospital opened the doors of a brand new eye clinic for the public.

The Indus hospital eye clinic has been established with the help of the “Care and Kindness Society” (CKS) of Karachi, Pakistan. CKS is a non profit organization based in the Jinnah hospital eye ward, working to provide free medical treatment to patients with eye diseases since 2002.

The OPD clinics are conduted twice a day every day except for Saturdays when patients are seen only during the frist half of the day and Sundays when all scheduled procedures are done. Inpatient services are not provided as yet, however day care facility at the Indus Hospital is engaged for patients that undergo surgical procedures.

Approximately 50 patients with all sorts of eye disease are seen in the OPDs every day while approximately 10 patients undergo surgeries for both Phaco and ECCE cataracts every Sunday; all completely free of cost.

The Indus Hospital eye clinic is fully equipped with all sorts of required machinery such as lensometer, autoreftrector, ophthalmoscope retro scope etc.