Deccan Chronicle 13.01.2011
Check-ups find 3,500 students partially blind
January 13th, 2011
Jan. 12: The Chennai corporation conducted eye check-ups
for over 61,000 students from 188 corporation schools in the last
one-year and found that more than 3,500 students suffered from partial
blindness.
As per the instructions of the Palli Sirar Kannoli Kaapom
scheme, all the affected students would be provided with spectacles and
provided treatment to regain clear vision.
Speaking at the inauguration of a corporation eye clinic
in Egmore on Wednesday, Mayor M. Subramaniam said that in the last four
years, the civic body had opened 50 hospitals and 3 lakh persons
benefited from 136 medical camps that were conducted in the city.
With the objective that schoolchildren should not lag in
studies due to blurred vision, the civic body has conducted eye check
ups for over 7.5 lakh from various government schools. “In the past few
years 31,000 students have benefited from the ‘Palli Sirar Kannoli
Kaapom’ scheme. We have distributed spectacles to students of a Chennai
government higher secondary school in Rotler Street,” the mayor said.