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Four
out of the five poor blind children knew no bounds of
their joy when they began to see the light of the day
after their eyes were operated upon, the miracle came
true with the help of sensible Collector of Seoni
district, Shri Anil Yadav.
One
more important thing to know is that the operations
were performed by a renowned eye-surgeon of Nagpur,
Dr. Rajednra Vishwakarma free of cost. The fifth blind
boy is being treated with the help of special glasses.
The four blind boys, whose operations were successful
are - Rahul Sahu is a student of first standard,
Naresh Daheriya studies in IV standard, Radheshyam
Daheriya in V class and Deeplal Bhalavi in VI
standard. All the five children were operated upon
their eyes on April 22, 2006. All of them belong to
the families living below the poverty line.
It
so happened that the future of the four poor children
would have been full of darkness had the Seoni
Collector, Shri Yadav recently in the last month not
visited Ashadeep Vidyalaya. This school for the blind
children is run by the social workers of the Seoni
township. The Collector went sentimental at knowing
the fact that the five children of the Vidyalaya were
not being operated upon their eyes just because of the
absence of necessary funds. The Collector apprising
himself of the financial condition of the five poor
children said easily at once "Main Hun Na"
(I am there to help them). He .issued instructions to
operate upon the childlren's eyes at the earliest.
The
eye surgeon, Dr. Vishwakarma later on following the
primary investigation expressed the possibility of
restoring the eyesight of six out of 38 children
studying in Ashadeep Vidyalaya at Dundaseoni, if their
eyes were operated upon. He examined these children
and fixed the date for operation on April 22. Despite
the facts that a lot of money was required to carry
out the operations and the school was unable to bear
the expenditure, Dr. Vishwakarma came forth with the
determination to perform the operations free of cost.
At the time, the Collector also extending its helping
hand sanctioned Rs. 9000 from the destitute fund to
meet the expenditure for the medicines.
Accordingly,
the operations were performed on eyes of the five
children and the treatment of one of the five children
continued with the help of special glasses. Four
children were successfully operated upon, as a result
of which their faces mixed with amazement shone up
when they saw the sight of the day for the first time
in life after the removal of bandages from their eyes.
The office bearers of the organisation present on the
occasion alongwith Shri M.R. Pande, Secretary,
expressed their joy by embracing Shri R.K. Thakur, Dr.
Vishwakarma and others. Dr. Vishvakarma, with a view
to testing his success for operation, played a "hide
and seek" with these children for a while.
The
expenditure on the operations and the medicines
required was a difficult task, but could be resolved
with exemplary promptness of the Collector and
voluntary feelings of Dr. Vishwakarma.
After
performing the cataract operation of a blind student
of class IV, Rewaram, it was found that screen of his
eyes is damaged. So, it was proposed to perform an
operation on his eyes at Nagpur after the summer.
According
to Dr. Vishwakarma, blindness occurs in such cases
because of the lack of knowledge of the parents
alongwith malnutrition and sometimes the consumption
of fluoride contained water. Three, out of the
children, in question had to suffer from blindness on
account of malnutrition and lack of treatment said Dr.
Vishwakarma.
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