Through our partner hospital, Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre, we decided to extend our ongoing work in West Bengal by expanding the hospital’s primary eye care network.
Orbis brought forth the concept of Green Vision Centre (GVC) to provide a responsible route to provision of primary eye care to the community. The initiative is part of our goal to further equip and strengthen vision centres in areas where electric supply is not reliable and intermittent.
GVCs are established considering the following points:
- convenient location directly within the community,
- optimal platform for screening children with eye diseases at an early stage,
- provide remedial measures,
- timely referrals,
- use of digital data management software,
- less consumption of paper,
- use of LEDs and less power consuming equipment,
- renewable solar energy system.
Additionally, under the project undertaken with the USAID grant, we will also support women in the community and ensure the training of female health care providers to address local eye care needs. In that regard, electric bikes for transport needs of the women Vision Technicians have also been made.
The GVC concept helps create permanent access to primary eye care services for the children and communities at an affordable cost. Further, GVC fees for adult eye services will help to subsidize paediatric eye care.
