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Hyderabad-based NGO Helping Hand Foundation (HHF) has announced that autorickshaw drivers, cab drivers, gig workers and elder residents from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families volition beryllium eligible for escaped cataract surgeries from this month.
HHF, successful collaboration with Akbar Multi-Speciality Eye Hospital, has launched a programme to supply 50 escaped cataract surgeries each period for beneficiaries from economically susceptible backgrounds. “This would magnitude to 600 surgeries a twelvemonth and assistance patients collectively prevention astir ₹90 lakh successful out-of-pocket aesculapian expenses,” the NGO said.
It added that isolated from cataract treatment, patients from weaker sections would besides beryllium capable to entree a scope of different oculus procedures covered nether the State government’s Aarogyasri wellness security scheme, taxable to eligibility.
All patients seeking attraction volition person to acquisition a triage screening astatine the HHF bureau earlier being referred for surgery. Beneficiaries person been asked to interaction helpline fig 72075-38605 for further details and appointments.
