"35 Cataract Surgeries in a Days”

The surgeons will operate a couple of hours ago, C.M.O. Pratapgarh is to inaugurate the eye camp. Dr. S.K.Tiwari for her tireless efforts in making every camp a success. Sri S.K. Rai, Sri Devi Prasaad, Sri Suredra Kapoor critical members of this surgical team. Today, Dr. S.K.Tiwari perform surgery. she put a lens in the patient’s eye and cleaned up the eye. Then she started on another patient. First she created a tiny incision above the black part of the eye. Then she made a round cut around the cataract and through the incision, she extracted it. It was yellowish in color. Before she could fit the new lens into the patient’s eye, I fainted.

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I.O.L. Eye Camp, 20 Jan 2009

Number of Patients Examined: 350

Number of Patients Selected:57

Number of Surgeries(Jan 20 2009):

Dr. S.K. Tiwari: 35

Total Number of Patients Operated: 35

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Cost for One Cataract Operation (I Care, doctors & volunteers donated their services): Rs. 1000 ($25)

Cost of hosting the camp (diesel, food, electricity, transportation, awareness campaign, follow-up, and pre-qualification):Rs. 600 per patient ($15)

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