Presidential Message

It’s been a rare honour and privilege for me to have been given the mantle of President of Managing Committee of JPM Rotary Club of Cuttack Eye Hospital & Research Institute for the third time. I am grateful to the members of my Club for having reposed their faith in me and I take this opportunity to assure them that I shall try my best to redeem their faith in me, and enrich the rich and varied legacy of this noble Charitable Institute.

From a very modest beginning in 1993, this institution has grown by leaps and bounds to become a leading Eye Care Center in Eastern India. This institute is now equipped with State-of-art equipments to undertake hi-tech eye surgeries and other diagnostic tests required for eye care. We have a galaxy of highly trained and competent ophthalmologists to treat the patients, duly supported by trained and skilled team of paramedical staff.

This has enabled us to treat on an average 300 OPD patients a day and conduct about 7000-8000 operation a year. We conduct surgeries not only in our base hospital but also in outreach cataract surgery camps organized by us in Bihar and Jharkhand and different far flung areas of our State. Our team has just come back from Keonjhar after conducting 500 + Cataract Surgeries and another team has come back from Jharkhand after conducting about 700 surgeries.

In active association and collaboration with Sightsavers, this year our major focus has been on Urban Eye Health Programme and to reach out to provide eye care to the people staying in urban slum areas. That is, we want to reach out to the people who can least afford eye treatment. In pursuance of this noble project we have established two Satellite Vision Centers in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar and we are planning to open a few more Vision Centers to bring more and more poor patients under the ambit of this project.

We are also organizing Cataract Screening camps in different districts of Odisha and we bring patients to our Hospital for surgery and then drop them back in their respective villages after conducting surgery. I would take this opportunity to inform my esteem readers that nearly 60% of the operations that is being conducted by us is free and primarily the poor and needy benefit from these surgeries.

I take pleasure in informing you that for all the initiatives taken by us to alleviate preventable blindness at nominal costs, we have been recognized as a Center of Excellence by Sightsavers and this hospital is one of the leading permanent projects of Rotary in R.I. Dist 3262.

In the field of academics our Institute is one of the first DNB accredited Institute in the State of Odisha and we shall soon be starting a course on Diploma in Ophthalmic Technique. Further our Doctors have been presenting research papers in every major seminars at National and State levels and their papers are being published in major Journals on Ophthalmology.

I am confident that with the support of our Doctors, paramedical staff & support staff of this hospital will continue to grow from strength to strength and be an institute synonymous with quality eye care for the community at large.

Rtn. Dr. Swati Mullick
President , JPM Rotary Eye Hospital