Community / Social Ophthalmology

Keratitis , unlike glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy, is a very symptomatic condition. Still, patients present in the late stages resulting in them having to undergo TPK, which itself is not a vision restoring procedure. We used a systematic framework to understand the barriers at multiple levels and evaluated the chain of events.

To evaluate prevalence of ocular morbidity in school going children age 6 –16 yrs in public schools urban & rural areas of Kanpur city.

Compare High(HVP) VS Low Volume Phacoemulsification(LVP) Outcomes in tertiary hospital in Central India,in 30-day period,in terms of Quality gauged as Intra-op. VS Post-op. complications & their management(on day1 & 30)

Xerophthalmia refers to the spectrum of ocular manifestations such as structural changes of conjunctiva and cornea and biophysical disorder of retinal rods and cones.

To compare the in-vitro bacterial kill rate of branded and generic moxifloxacin eye drops.

To determine the prevalence of Spheroidal degeneration of cornea (S.D.C) & its association with other eye diseases in the tribes of south-western Rajasthan.

Retrospective analysis of cornea transplant in private eye institute in association with NGO from 2005 January-2016 May.Eye bank maintained in association with NGO,surgery performed free of cost.Data analyzed regarding cost effectiveness,infrastructure required& outcome of surgery performed from December 2013 to May 2016.

To assess awareness about cataract related information among hospital employees in a Tertiary Care Centre.

HIV/AIDS represent one of the most serious public health problems in North Bihar, attributable to spread from urban to rural areas and from high risk to the general population by the migrant labourers who move in large numbers to different states for the purpose of earning.

Refractive errors are the commonest cause of visual impairment in school children worldwide.

A retrospective analysis of patients operated from July 2012 till May 2015 in a urban charitable setup in Jharkhand was done to establish the prevalence of Diabetic patients amongst the total number operated for cataract . The percentage of Male and Female diabetic patients was also studied.

This contraption can be used for projecting live video feed from the operated eye to the non operated eye, if the patient is willing. This enhances the transparency in many different ways as the surgeon wants it. Patient can also be enlightened real time regarding the use of Rings, hooks OVDs.

To study the level of awareness and knowledge of glaucoma in patients of different socioeconomic status at a tertiary eye care hospital in Eastern India.

To study the incidence of various ocular conditions resulting in visual impairment and blindness in patients attending ophthalmology OPD for visually handicap certificate.

To address the prevalence ,treatment outcome and prognostic factors of ocular tumors.

Diabetes mellitus is the most common cause of blindness in the working-age group; can be minimized by this knowledge among the patients. To assess knowledge of diabetic eye disease among patients with DM in a tertiary hospital.A peer validated questionnaire survey conducted among DMpatients from Jan – April 2016.

A 19 year old girl and 15 year old boy who are siblings were brought to the OP department with a history of reduced vision in both eyes since childhood.Both of them were having poor scholastic performances.

To assess awareness, knowledge about refractive errors and strabismus among the general public in south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

To understand the presentation and the systemic association of branch retinal vein occlusions in a hospital based study in southern India.

To study the reasons for late presentation of cataract cases to a tertiary care hospital in Southern Assam.

This study is designed to determine the proportion of paediatric patients who practice self medication, the drugs employed and the reasons for resorting to self medication in Ophthalmological morbidities.

To evaluate prevalence and to make a comparison between the ocular morbidity pattern in school going children of urban and rural areas of Uttar Pradesh West.

To study incidence of sight threatening lesions(STL) in MBL pts after 2 yrs of MDT.