| The Department conducts outpatient
services everyday for general eye care. Some of the equipment
available for outpatient care are Slit Lamp, Direct and Indirect
Ophthalmoscope, Tonometer (Schiotz) and Streak Retinoscope besides
the routine eye care set.
School screening programmes,
Free Annual Eye screening programmes at Divine Light School at
Whitefield and community eye screening programmes at the community
health center at Tumkur are some of the other work done by the
department.
Surgeries conducted by the
department are -
- Phacoemulsification
(microincision) cataract surgery with foldable intraoccular lens
implantation.
- Antiglaucoma
surgery
- Squint surgery
- Dacryocystectomy and
Dacryocystorhinostomy.
- Repairs of conjunctiva and
corneal tears
- Other minor surgical
procedures.
A phacoemulsification unit
with vitrectomy and operating microscope is available for
conducting surgeries. |