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With the Congress government showing no signs of continuing with the one-of-a-kind ‘Kanti Velugu’, it is the patients from rural areas, who will suffer the most due to lack of access to such specialised and costly eye-care services.
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Hyderabad: With the help of the Kanti Velugu scheme by KCR, more than 3 crore people got eye treatment, and 80 lakh plus people were provided spectacles in Telangana.
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With the launch of the massive eye screening initiative of Kanti Velugu, the State government addressed this gap in eye healthcare by ensuring eye-related ailments are diagnosed and treated at the earliest.
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Patients received free reading and prescription glasses and those needing medical intervention were referred to specialty doctors at SD Eye Hospital, Mehdipatnam, to undergo treatment
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Karimnagar Collector RV Karnan instructed the doctors to conduct cataract surgeries to patients, who were referred for operations in the Kanti Velugu programme
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With a focus on preventive eye care, the Kanti Velugu program screened a staggering 161 million people across Telangana
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This ambitious initiative has successfully screened an impressive count of 1,60,89,744 individuals across the state
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The Kanti Velugu initiative, being implemented for 100-working days, has so far screened 1, 58, 35, 947 individuals.
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Under the initiative, the Telangana State Health Department has so far distributed reading glasses to 21.66 lakh persons
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About 10 lakh people have been screened so far under the Kanti Velugu programme, aimed at achieving an avoidable-blindness free Telangana
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Launched by the Chief Minister, K Chandrashekhar Rao on January 18 in Khammam, the Kanti Velugu scheme has so far covered 1.42 crore persons in Telangana
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Minister Puvvada Ajay Kumar inaugurated the roads built connecting several internal roads at a cost of Rs 16.24 crores
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About 98,77,475 people who underwent screening were found to be free of any kind of eye-related issues.
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Aimed at conducting tests for 2 cr people in 100 working days, says Harish Rao
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Nearly 49,763 persons were found to be in need of prescription glasses, of whom 30,409 persons were given the glasses
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Finance Minister T Harish Rao said that Telangana on Thursday completed screening one crore persons in just 50 days after the programme was launched.
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Filariasis patients in Siddipet would be given medicine once every three months so that the disease could be controlled from aggravating, said Harish Rao
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Impressed by Kanti Velugu initiative, the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said he had announced his plans to replicate the programme in Delhi as well
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About 69,848 persons have been given reading glasses, while 42,881 persons were identified for prescription spectacles and 19,203 prescription spectacles were delivered
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Health Minister T Harish Rao said more women than men were turning up at the Kanti Velugu camps across the State
