Among several farm labourers from Veernapalli village of Sircilla district who benefited from Kanti Velugu, Chandrakala is one who was struggling to go work in the agricultural field because of poor vision.
T Harish Rao has instructed the health department officials to hand over the reading glasses to patients after conducting the tests during the Kanti Velugu camp
The eye screening for vision problems for adults are being conducted at the Village or ward level and 1,500 teams would work for the next 100 working days.
State government’s efforts, to support and promote medical device manufacturing units in the State are paying off, with one of these units now supplying over 10 lakh spectacle units to second phase of Kanti Velugu programme in a record time of 90 days.
The minister inaugurated a Basti Dawakhana set up at a cost of Rs.4.98 lakh in the old municipal corporation building of 37th division in Khammam on Monday.
Patil has suggested the ward members in Grama Panchayats spread awareness of the camp through loudspeakers in their respective wards to make the programme successful
Telangana State health department distributed a total of 37,046 reading glasses among the beneficiaries while 33,221 persons were identified for prescription glasses
Besides conducting eye tests, reading glasses were distributed to people visited the camps conducted in different places of Karimnagar, Peddapalli, Jagtial and Rajanna-Sircilla districts.
