Aalo, Mar 7: The National Programme for Control of Blindness and Visual Impairment is proceeding with the Declaration of West Siang District as Avoidable Blindness Free by March 31, this year.
 In the run up to the event, he Health Department is engaged in mobilisation of community to cooperate in campaign, training of staff and volunteers involved  to achieve the target. The ASHAs and other primary health care workers are already working in the field and all the rural communities have been screened. In this direction, a training of volunteers for screening of Township area was conducted today by the Ophthalmologists and Para- Medical Ophthalmic Assistant. The screening of the township area for operable Cataract cases will be started immediately and all the operable cases detected in rural and urban areas will be operated free of cost at General Hospital, Aalo.

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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