Bhubaneswar: May 20: Rural Eye Health Centre opened in LV Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar yesterday, which has been funded by Indian Oil Corporation. The Indian Oil-LVPEI centre for Rural Eye Health will provide support in the field of eye health care in rural Odisha. The centre will coordinate with secondary and primary eye care centres under the LVPEI community Eye Health and outreach services.
The Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan inaugurated the Centre on May 19 at a function here at Bhubaneswar. The Indian Oil had offered an assistance of Rs 2 crore to the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) as part of its CSR contribution for setting up the ‘Indian Oil Centre for Rural Eye Health’. The MOU was signed between the two in March last year.
LV Prasad Eye Institute has started its pyramidal model of eye care services in Odisha with the first secondary centre in Rajgangpur, the OCL Eye Care Centre established in 2015. The secondary centre is serving people from western Odisha and the neighbouring Jharkhand state.
The second secondary centre was established at Rayagada, one of the backward and Tribal districts of Odisha. The third one is at Berhampur, which was inaugurated in December 2015. All these secondary centres are aimed to serve the 5 lakhs population of the service delivery areas.
