Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh & DAK Foundation signs an agreement, 8 thousand free surgery

KATHMANDU: Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh and the Australian DAK Foundation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The agreement was signed by the President Prof. Dr. Chetraj Pant on behalf of the association and Dave Rickard, the founder on behalf of the foundation.

The foundation will provide grants to the association for free surgery of approximately 8,000 eye patients in 2023, while the association will provide free eye treatment to citizens who are deprived of eye treatment services due to financial constraints via various hospitals and external programs.

There has been continuous cooperation between the association and the foundation since 2019, and as a continuation of this, an agreement has been signed for free eye surgery for about 8,000 patients this year.

It is providing quality services easily, easily and cheaply at people’s doorsteps so that no citizen has to live blindly due to lack of finances and accessibility.

Bharat Bahadur Chand, the general secretary of the association, says that the association is conducting free camps throughout the decade in collaboration with various donor agencies so that no citizen should be blind due to a lack of finances.

According to Ranjan Shah, the association’s program manager, with the assistance of the DAK Foundation, around 500,000 individuals have been screened and 52,000 have received free surgery.

The organization, run by the Australian couple Dave Rickard and Kerry Dickard, is now distributing funding to residents living below the poverty line in around ten nations throughout the world to offer free health care.

The foundation’s creator, Dave Rickard, says the objective is to offer 500,000 individuals a second opportunity throughout the world.

Dr. Shailes Kumar Mishra, Executive Director of the Association, says that DAK Foundation is providing important support to the Netrajyoti Sangh’s plan to prevent blindness that will be cured after treatment in Nepal by the year 2030.

“Even now, some citizens in our country are denied eye care due to financial constraints.” The assistance of charity organizations like as the Post Foundation is critical in providing services to such citizens, according to Mishra.

Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh is currently providing quality eye treatment services to citizens through 27 eye hospitals, 154 eye treatment centres and 44 district branches across the country.