Kanti Velugu gets good response in Palamuru

Mahbubnagar: The Kanti Velugu programme which was launched on August 15 on the occasion of Independence Day, aimed at providing free eye screening to the masses, has received an overwhelming response from the general public across various parts of erstwhile Mahbubnagar district.

Dr. C. Laxma Reddy, Minister for Health and Family welfare, government of Telangana launched the Kanti Velugu programme in Marikal mandal of Mahabubnagar district. Initially, the programme was launched in all the mandals where one team constituting doctors, nurses, eye specialists and ANMs at the rural village level set up camps in one village and conduct eye screening tests to each and every one in the village.

On the first day, 300 persons got their eye screened in Marikal. While talking on the occasion of the launch of Kanti Velugu programme, the Health Minister said, “Healthcare in Telangana is given highest priority. During past 4 years the Telangana government had strived hard to get sanction for many government and private medical colleges in the State.

Not only getting MCI nod for Mahbubnagar Government Medical College, Dr. Reddy stressed that all the government hospitals have been beefed up with all the required infrastructure facilities and equipped with necessary medical equipments and doctors and other healthcare staff.

“After the success of KCR Kits, Basti Dawakhanas and setting up of centres for providing free disease diagnosis centres, the Kanti Velugu programme is launched to brighten the lives of the poor people who are reeling under darkness because of lack of proper eye care hospitals in the rural areas. Therefore people should utilise this opportune and get their eyes tested and treated free of cost,” said Dr. Reddy.

Similarly, in Nagarkurnool district, Jupally Krishna Rao, Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural development formally launched the novel eye care diagnosis programme at Somasila village of Kollapur mandal and urged the people to utilise the benefits provided by the government.

In Jogulamba Gadwal district, the Kanti Velugu programme was launched in the Gadwal Areas Hospital, where more than 500 patients got screened for the eye disease. The programme was formally inaugurated by Talasani Srinivas Yadav, Minister for Animal Husbandry and Health minister Dr. Laxma Reddy.

In Kodangal mandal, Patnam Mahender Reddy, TRS MLC launched the Kanti Velugu programme and it received an over welhiming response from the rural masses. While talking on the occasion he said under Kanti Velugu programme the state government has targeted to screen and provide treatment to more than 3.5 crore people in Telangana and the entire costs for screening and treatment is totally borne by the government.

The MLC urged the people to utilise the scheme and get benefited from the unique and first of its kind eye care programme by the government. Apart of the Kanti Velugu programme, the team of doctors and other healthcare staff will check up eyes of children, youth, elders and old age people and based on the level of diagnosis they will be given the follow up treatment. The government is expecting to treat more than 40 per cent of total population under Kanti Velugu programme.

Those found with defects in eye sight will be given spectacles; whole those with cataract and other eye related complex problems will be advised to go for surgeries for which the government will bear the entire costs, overall, on the first day of the launch of Kanti Velugu on Wednesday, near about 100 teams, have taken part in the screening test. And an estimate 2 to 2.5 lakh people in the erstwhile Mahabubnagar district.

The government has given 6 months time to complete all the screening tests to each and every individual and accordingly the healthcare staff have scheduled their camps in each village and expected to cover a total population of about 50 lakh people in the entire untied Mahabubnagar district in the given targeted period of 6 months.