Focus on Bihar –East Champaran

Last December it was with great pleasure that we reconnected with Glaucoma specialist Dr Ajit Dwivedi. He runs the Sharda Eye and Dental Hospital in his ancestral town of Chakia. Cataract blindness inevitably dominates eradication of blindness programmes. However, hospitals run by experienced clinicians ensure that all eye diseases are treated with equal importance.

Meet patient Jhanti Devi (below) who was fitted with an excellent prosthesis - an artificial left eye. Read her full story in the blog entitled ‘Twenty-one…a coming of age’ www.secondsight.org.uk/blog