Focus on Bihar –East Champaran

Glaucoma specialist Dr Ajit Dwivedi has been in our network of Bihari clinicians for over 15years. He runs the Sharda Eye and Dental Hospital in Patna as well a branch in his ancestral town of Chakia. And it was he who brought the expertise of paediatric glaucoma surgery to Bihar.
Cataract blindness inevitably dominates any eradication of blindness programme in India - cataract is still the leading cause of reversible blindness throughout the world.
However, hospitals run by experienced clinicians like Dr Dwivedi ensure that all eye diseases can be treated.

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