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EYE-CAMP (with picture)
300 poor eye patients get free treatments in Rangpur
RANGPUR, Jan 29, 2019 (BSS) – More than 300 poor and distressed eye
patients received free treatments at a daylong free eye camp held on Monday
at Amashu Kukrul Progoti High School ground of the city.
The Deep Eye Care Foundation (DECF) with assistance of Rangpur City
Corporation (RpCC) organised the eye camp in the city.
Mayor of Rangpur Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa inaugurated the eye camp
followed by selection of cataract patients for cost-free surgeries under the
‘Free Cataract Surgeries Project’ of DECF.
City Councilor Bilkis Begum, social workers Azmal Hossain Lebu, Shahadat
Hossain and Saiful Islam Ripan addressed the among others. The meeting was
moderated by Research Associate of DECF Feroz Alam Saifullah.
Feroz Alam Saifullah discussed activities of the financially self-
supporting DECF that provides services to the rich and poor alike at its
hospital located at Darshona area of the divisional city.
Mayor Mostafa hoped that the joint collaboration of DECF and RpCC would
effectively provide quality treatments to all eye patients of Rangpur city.
After providing free treatments to 300 eye patients, eye specialists of
DECF selected 43 cataract patients and two patients suffering from enlarged
muscles in eyes for conducting surgeries at their own hospital.
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