Over 655 Cataract Surgeries Performed At PPL's �free Eye Camps In 13 Months

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Apr, 2021 ) :More than 6,800 patients visited the free eyes camps, organized by the Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) in collaboration with Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, in different parts of Sindh and Balochistan provinces during a 13-month period from February 2020 to February 2021 for consultation and treatment.

�The company, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Programme, provided optical glasses to over 42,00 patients and facilitated 655 cataract surgeries after a thorough examination.

�All consultations, treatment, surgeries and medicines were free of cost for the visiting patients, official sources told APP.

�In January-February 2021, the company held surgical eye camps at the District Headquarters Hospital, Dera Bugti and the PPL-funded Public Welfare Hospital Sui, where free-of-cost consultation, treatment and medicines were provided to over 3,000 patients, optical glasses to more than 1,500 visiting people, besides performing 355 cataract surgeries.

�Similarly in February-March 2020, the�eye camps were organized in districts Kambar-Shahdadkot and Sanghar of �Sindh, home to PPL's Mazarani Gas Field, Gambat South and Hala blocks.

�At these camps, more than 3,800 locals were provided consultation, treatment and medicines, out of which 2,700 patients were given glasses for near and distant vision, and 300 on-site cataract surgeries were carried out.

�The eye camps, being organized by the PPL in surrounding localities of its oil and gas production fields for over a decade, have benefited local communities in remote areas, as the suffering humanity was provided quality consultation, the latest on-site surgical technology and medicines.

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