KOCHI: As part of World Sight Day, Giridhar Eye Institute, Kadavanthra will conduct a one month long awareness and screening programme, Windows’15 to draw to the causes of avoidable blindness and vision impairment and means of eradicating them.
The Minister of Social Justice & Empowerment Thawar Singh Gehlot and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis launched the ‘Accessible India’ Campaign for Persons with Disabilities on 24th September 2015. The campaign promises to target three verticals – Built up environment, transportation ecosystem and the information and communication ecosystem. The launch of this campaign itself is path breaking, as political parties and governments in the country have neglected the disabled.
COIMBATORE: Next time you visit the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, do not miss the woman who issues you the OP ticket. Her dark glasses suit her perfectly. But you would find it impossible to believe that she is visually challenged, especially given her dexterity with the computer keyboard.
The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person’s vision slightly, a new study has found.
HYDERABAD: In spite of various campaigns and awareness initiatives taken by the health administration, the number of people suffering from blindness is rising in Hyderabad and more than 6,000 people are waiting for corneal transplantation in the district.
LUCKNOW: The longing for light emanates from the most profound darkness. Turning this proverb true, a student from Shakuntala Mishra National Rehabilitation University has shown the way to fight blindness in UP. First year student in MA History, Ekta Pandey has pledged to donate her eyes to King George's Medical University's eye bank.
LUCKNOW: The 19-year-old visually impaired Paridhi Varma who made it to Indian Institute of Management- Lucknow despite only 10% vision has now all reasons to smile. Following TOI's report on Paridhi, this TOI correspondent received an e-mail from a Mumbai-based woman wanting to speak to Paridhi, to tell her there is no reason to lose hope.
Chandigarh has 8,581 disabled persons, with the maximum (4,289) being orthopaedically handicapped (OH) and the least (98) suffering from autism, according to a report released by the Regional Institute of Mentally Handicapped on Thursday. Dr B S Chavan, Joint Director, RIMH, claims that no other Union Territory in the country has 100 per cent coverage of disabled people. Chandigarh is the first city to have covered all disabled persons.
APJ Abdul Kalam wanted Gujarat to take lead in becoming the green energy corridor, says Srijan Pal Singh
How many times have you aided a blind or visually impaired person to cross the street or read a sign or written directions or identify a person or thing?
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