This year the Free Eye Camp was held at Anandvan, Warora, District Chandrapur, in the month of December (10th - 16th) 2002. Anandvan is a rehabilitation center for Leprosy affected patients setup by Baba Amte in Warora (an economically backward and tribal district). It is approximately a 17 hour train ride away from Mumbai and its local language is Marathi. Everything at Anandvan (from its maintainence to making the furniture and cooking the food) is managed by the leprosy patients.
This camp was the third major camp we conducted there within the span of 2 years (178 operations performed in Jan 2001 and 215 operations in December 2001). This time we planned to perform 300 IOL operations. The camp was for seven days. The first two days were reserved for diagnosis and preoperative preparations. On the third and fourth day the patients were operated upon by a team of qualified surgeons from J. J. Group of Hospitals under the leadership of Dr. Shri T. P. Lahane, Head of Ophthalmology Department. The fifth, sixth and seventh days was for the dressings & discharge.

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