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The 5th variation of ‘Whitathon’ organised by the LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), to rise consciousness astir the aboriginal detection of Retinoblastoma (eye cancer) successful children and funds for its treatment, received overwhelming effect connected Sunday. The locomotion organised from Kali Matha Temple to the YMCA connected the RK Beach Road saw scores of enthusiastic participants.
According to the organisers, the lawsuit commemorates the ‘World Retinoblastoma Awareness Week’, observed betwixt May 10 to 16, this year.
During the programme, Ocular Oncologist astatine LVPEI’s GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Dr Suneetha, spoke connected the request to make consciousness astir the symptoms of retinoblastoma among the public.
“If you spot a achromatic pupil reflex successful a child’s eye, successful a flash photograph, instantly consult an ophthalmologist. Early detection and attraction tin prevention the child’s imaginativeness and life,” she said.
Head, GMR Varalakshmi campus, Dr. Virender Sachdeva, said that the funds raised from the Whitathon tally are utilised to dainty underprivileged children suffering from Retinoblastoma astatine nary cost, and to enactment aboriginal research. This year, astir 280 enthusiastic participants joined the cause, demonstrating beardown assemblage enactment for the event, helium said, adding that from the funds raised done the Whitathon, LVPEI has till day offered implicit 3,000 treatments escaped of cost. Annually, the institute treats 150 to 200 caller cases of Retinoblastoma crossed the network, helium added.
