Control of Blindness (NPCB)‚ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare‚ Government of India and other stakeholders (including IAPB‚ WHO‚ AIOS‚ EBAI‚ COSI) Prepared by2 VISION 2020 INDIA XIIth Plan Team Contact Person: Dr Rajesh Noah‚ Executive Director‚ VISION 2020 INDIA www.vision2020india.org / rajeshnoah@vision2020india.org / 9810108752 Distribution: NPCB Team (JS/DDG (O)/ADG)‚ VISION 2020 Member Organizations and its stakeholders/partners‚ including IAPB/AIOS/WHO/EBAI/COSI Avoidable blindness is blindness
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In Sophocles’ "Oedipus Rex"‚ the theme of irony plays an important part throughout the play. In the play‚ Oedipus Rex believes that if he leaves Corinth he will be able to avoid his fate. The oracle says the Oedipus will kill his father and bear children with his mother. Eventually‚ he unknowingly kills his father in a chance meeting and married his mother. Oedipus remains clueless that the oracle’s prediction has come to pass. The play is a tragedy‚ and Oedipus is a tragic hero because he has an
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almost all her sense of taste and smell. Then Samuel Gridley Howe found and helped her understand her disabilities she now had (Alexander 1-4). Laura Bridgman went blind and deaf from scarlet fever. Blindness is being unable to see‚ and many people can become blind. Some people who are at risk of blindness are people with diabetes‚ stroke victims‚ or people who work with or near toxic chemicals. There are many things that can help people who
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Unit 4222-258 Introductory awareness of sensory loss (SS MU2.1) Outcome 1 When people have any sensory loss‚ then their mobility and communication are greatly affected. This can lead to increased loneliness and even isolation in some cases. People with any kind of sensory loss can have difficulties in finding employment. Even though the Equality Act and the Disability Discrimination Act mean that employers cannot discriminate‚ it is hard to convince an employer that a sensory loss does not
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Mission * Quality eye care to rich and poor alike. * Blindness is needless and curable most of the times. * Start the community outreach programmes. * No cross-subsidization. Objective * Increase the awareness of blindness-cures and need for early treatment. * Helping other hospitals to increase their level of productivity. * Increase the %age of IOL surgeries. * Increase the productivity of doctors. * Increase learning of doctors. * Large volumes were necessary
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Case: Aravind Eye Hospital * What is Aravind’s mission? How successful is Aravind at achieving its mission? The mission is to bring eyesight to the masses of poor people in India‚ Asia‚ Africa and all over the world. To provide quality care as a non-profit eye hospital. To spread the Aravind model and offer hope in all parts of the world. Aravind has grown from a 20-bed hospital in 1976 to 1224 beds in 1992 as one of the biggest hospitals of its kind in the world. The Aravind organization
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Oedipus does not see that he is caught up in a web of cruel destiny that he can not escape. The gods demonstrate foresight and insight into the play. In addition to this‚ Tiresias has physical blindness but also has prophetic insight. Finally‚ both Oedipus and Jocasta portray types of mental blindness and shortsightedness. These are all examples of different uses of sight in the play Oedipus the King. Oedipus is a hero‚ but sometimes he can not see the reality of this. He goes into states
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well with it. They also say that they have no facilities for us to use. And so‚ they immediately conclude that they are not yet ready to accept a blind student. To address this issue‚ I would like to explain to them myself‚ with the help of some blindness organizations‚ that though a blind student really need special facilities as they call it (screen readers‚ note takers‚ and an embosser‚ to name a few)‚ it is not really necessary for them to provide such things to us‚ if they don’t want to‚ or they
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Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille‚ a blind Frenchman. He was blinded in an accident while playing with one of his father’s knives. As a boy he developed a mastery over that blindness and as a young man – still a student at school – he created a revolutionary form of communication that transcended blindness and transformed the lives of millions. After two centuries‚ the braille system remains an invaluable tool of learning and communication for the blind‚ and it has been adapted for languages
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The movies “City of God” and “Blindness” were two films directed by Fernando Meirelles ‚ a Brazilian film director‚ producer‚ and screenwriter. “City of God” was his best known film‚ released in 2002 in Brazil where Fernando was nominated for an “Academy Award for Best Director”. While “Blindness”‚ a Brazilian-Canadian film‚ was released in 2008. Although both of them were related to violence‚ inhumane and harsh behaviour but they were different to the extent in film location and editing. The film
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