‘Kanti Velugu”: Ramulamma regains lost sight

Hyderabad: For the 60-year-old farm laborer Ramulamma, it’s surprising blessings from the Almighty. She regains her vision back, thanks to the state chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s ‘Kanti Velugu’. A resident of Kethepalli in Nalgonda district, she is one among those few laborers who flocked to the ‘eye testing camp’ and sees the medical miracle happen. The state government is focusing on the rural and inaccessible hamlets in the state to ensure those who are suffering from eye diseases get treated. This is just one among many such stories of the state’s initiative.“Kanti Velugu” cams are flooded with people giving a festive look and joy to all those suffering from eye problems.
Kethepalli is one such place in the Nakrekal segment of the Nalgonda district where the special camp was held this week. District Collector Vinaya Krishna Reddy and Rajya Sabha member Lingaiah Yadav were the guests there.
The Second phase Kanti Velugu program was launched on January 18 by the chief minister in Khammam and it appears to be witnessing great success. On the first day itself, the camps across the state attracted around 1.60 lakh patients and the tests were conducted on all the enrolled in 522 urban camps and 978 rural camps. On the first day of the camp the eye testing teams identified 70256 patients with certain eye-related ailments and 37,046 patients were provided reading glasses instantaneously. For the remaining 33,210 patients the prescribed spectacles will be provided in due course.
Minister for Health T Harish Rao, while reviewing the Kanti Velugu implementation process with the officials concerned, has announced that about fifteen thousand eye testing experts would be deployed throughout the state for accomplishing the herculean task that correcting the eyesight of the needy.In the Hyderabad urban limits, 1500 teams were deployed and these teams would undertake the eye screening and vision test for all the citizens irrespective of their age group. The achievement index says that a total of 406-gram panchayats spread across the state were covered in last week’s camps and vision screening in 981 more villages is in progress.
A total of 12.79 lakh persons including 6.79 lakh women were covered in the testing process to date. 625 transgenders were also covered in the screening process till Friday. A total of three lakh reading glasses were provided in the camps and 2.05 lakh patients were identified with vision problems, according to the test reports.