In the last one year ADEPT, in collaboration with Aravind Eye Hospital and the District Blindness Control Society, has been conducting eye camps in the Tsunami affected villages to identify the elderly with cataracts, school children with refractive errors, and diabetic retinopathy. Free cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation was performed on a total of 287 senior citizens from the Tsunami affected villages. Free spectacles were issued to 252 school children (10 to 16 years) with refractory errors from Tsunami affected areas.
The World Sight Day celebration conducted at the ADEPT Community Development Health Center, Cuddalore was graced by the District Deputy Director of Health Services, Head of Department of Ophthalmology, Government Hospital Cuddalore, Director of the District Blindness Control Society, and the Director of Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Muthusamy, one of the beneficiaries, equated ADEPT and Aravind Eye Hospital to parents who care for their children (elderly) who are in their second childhood. Mrs. Meenakshi, said that she has regained sight in both eyes through the surgeries and had decided to be an ambassador who will "bring the pleasure that she has got to others in the community".
ADEPT's Community Support Center leaders honored the beneficiaries in the traditional manner with a shawl.