AAFS to hold second free eye camp at UCH

Staff Report

LAHORE: The Anglo-Asian Friendship Society (AAFS), a United Kingdom based non-government organisation (NGO), will arrange a free two-day eye camp at United Christian Hospital (UCH) on Monday. On the first day, the patients will be diagnosed and on the second day, they will be operated if necessary.

AAFS President Devender Kumar Ghai will inaugurate the eye clinic and UCH ophthalmic specialists Dr Maria and Dr Benjman will operate the patients. This is the second camp of its kind to be arranged in the city and the AAFS had held the first camp in 2005 at the same hospital.

Reportedly, in last year’s camp, most of the cases were of cataract, glaucoma, refractive errors and diabetic eye problems and 300 patients were treated, with the findings that almost half of the cases of blindness were preventable and that nearly 30 percent of the cases had developed in childhood. The society had distributed leaflets and volunteers had advised pregnant women throughout the city’s maternity wards for two days.

The AAFS president told Daily Times that the objective of NGOs should be to help humanity, because many people were emotionally isolated and needed systematic help and special care.

Devender said that AAFS was making plans to expand the scope of the camp and was committed to saving future generations without the distinction of nation, cast, creed, religion and race. “Encouraged by our success, we want to expand the free medical services across the world including rural areas of India and Pakistan,” he said.

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