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Rotary Club donates funds for ophthalmology equipment
As part of its efforts towards facilitating eye care, the Rotary Club of Hyderabad presented a cheque for the purchase of ophthalmic equipment to LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on Friday.
As part of its efforts towards facilitating eye care, the Rotary Club of Hyderabad presented a cheque for the purchase of ophthalmic equipment to LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) on Friday.
Dr GN Rao collection the cheque, the funds from the same will be used in the examination and diagnostic rooms of the Glaucoma Out-Patient clinic.
The Rotary Club of Hyderabad District 3150 along with support from other Rotary Clubs in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad put together a matching grant that enabled the Rotary Club International Foundation to donate this fund.
Professor Brigitte Roeder, behavioural scientist and Professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, who has been working with ophthalmologists at LVPEI over the last many years, was present at the occasion. “This move has brought the Rotarians of both cities together to help on this noble theme of ‘so that all may see’,” said the professor.
The LVPEI team expressed its gratitude to Professor Brigitte Roeder both for her collaboration in research, and her efforts towards bringing in the Rotarians of Hamburg in their “service and dedication to world understanding and peace through international service programmes.”
“Since our collaborative research with Prof. Roeder, involving our pediatric ophthalmologist, Dr Ramesh Kekunnaya and basic researcher Professor D Balasubramanian, as also Dr Lea Pey, and Dr Davide Bottari and others from her side, has yielded exciting and remarkable results that make us understand how the brain of a born cataract-blind child ‘rewires’ itself when its vision is restored,” said Dr D Balasubramanian, Distinguished Scientist and Director Emeritus, Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre, L V Prasad Eye Institute.
The Rotary Club of Hyderabad had also set up a corpus fund for LVPEI in 1997-98, and instituted an award for an outstanding ophthalmologist. This lecture is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Hyderabad every year in memory of late Dr Rustam D Ranji.
The Dr Rustam D Ranji Rotary Award and Lecture 2016 was held by Prof. Atul Kumar, Chief and Professor of Ophthalmology, Vitreous-Retina Service, Dr RP Centre, AIIMS, spoke on the topic - “Diabetic Eye Disease - Unite to Treat”.
