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The Telangana authorities volition found Eye Care Clinics crossed the State to grow entree to continuous oculus attraction services, Health Minister C. Damodar Raja Narasimha told the Legislative Council connected Saturday (January 3, 2026).
Replying to questions during Question Hour, the Minister said that the clinics volition connection round-the-clock services alternatively than relying connected short-term oculus camps. The Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital successful Hyderabad volition relation arsenic the cardinal hub for managing and coordinating these clinics crossed the State.
Decision aft Committee submits report
“An ophthalmology specializer has been appointed arsenic a Nodal Officer to guarantee coordination betwixt the hub and the peripheral clinics, peculiarly for screening and surgical referrals. A high-level method adept committee has besides been constituted to measure the load and severity of oculus diseases successful Telangana and to urge due attraction protocols. Decisions connected the last operation and functioning of the oculus attraction clinics volition beryllium taken aft the committee submits its report,” helium added.
Referring to the Kanti Velugu programme, the Minister said that the inaugural was conducted successful 2 phases, archetypal successful 2018 and aboriginal successful 2023. He said the programme was constricted to screening and organisation of spectacles. Although doctors identified that astir 9.3 lakh radical required oculus surgeries during the programme, the inaugural concluded without surgical interventions being carried out.
The Minister besides informed that nether the National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment (NPCBVI), which has been successful cognition since 1976, the State has recorded a important scale-up successful services. Over the past 2 years combined, successful 2024 and 2025, a full of 6,12,973 cataract surgeries were performed. During the aforesaid period, oculus screening was conducted for 33,65,832 schoolhouse students, with spectacles distributed to 76,176 students who required imaginativeness correction.
