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WORLD SIGHT DAY SPECIAL: WE NEED TO FOCUS ON OUR CHILDREN’S EYE CARE
On the occasion of World Sight Day, and in the backdrop of the launch of the World Report on Vision by Vision 2020 INDIA to mark the day, Dr Rishi Raj Borah, Country Director, Orbis India, steers the conversation towards the importance of annual eye check up and ensuring we love our and our children's eyes
Making eye care count: How women optometrists are screening school boys for Color Vision Deficiency
People who have a color vision deficiency have difficulty seeing some colors or see them differently from other people. Color vision deficiency is often inherited and affects more males than females.
Eye Talk: Dr GVS Murthy on Pediatric Eye Care
From an exclusive interaction with Dr GVS Murthy, we bring to you a rationale on why pediatric eye care is important. His perspective helps one understand why NGOs like Orbis, the government and other stakeholders prioritize the cause of addressing childhood blindness in India.
COPING WITH PANDEMIC: A STRATEGIC COVID RESPONSE
The pandemic has posed a challenge in the context of supply and demand chain and cashflow impacting hospitals to a great extent. No patient means no regular inflow of cash. However, the costs or cash outflows continued. What could be done then?
Looking Back to Learn: Orbis's partners' COVID 19 response in 2020
2020 was a year of unprecedented times and crisis for many. Orbis, and its efforts with its partners in the past years, helped some of its partner hospitals to continue functioning.
Changing lives to restore sight-A Story of Hope
Orbis joined hands with Akhand Jyoti in 2016 to not only help the children in six districts of Bihar but also to build the capacity of the team of optometrists and other personnel within the project, most of them being girls.
Stay Connected, Rise Against Odds
Orbis has been diligently working on exploring ways to stay connected with the partners and find innovative means to continue working towards attaining our mission.We plan to leverage our award-winning remote training and education platform Cybersight.
Imperativeness of innovation and technology in challenging times like COVID
Connecting with anyone around the world has become so easy and technology makes that happen. It is only right to say, we would not have been able to do so much in so little time had technology not moved forward and given us the possibilities, the fruits of which we bear, at present.
