Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited funds eyecare projects worth NPR 10 million

KATHMANDU, July 25: Standard Chartered Bank Nepal Limited (SCBNL) has joined hands with Nepal Eye Programme (Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology) and MITRA Samaj to identify and treat cases of avoidable blindness, cataract, and posterior segment eye diseases across all provinces in the country.

The Bank has donated USD 36,434 (NPR 4,790,866) to the Nepal Eye Programme which will be used in the establishment of a Community Eye Centre (CEC) at Nichuta, Parsa, to deliver comprehensive eye care services to the people of Paterwa Sugauli Rural Municipality – 5 and its adjoining rural and urban municipalities. The project will focus on aged people, women, children, people with impairment, and people with disabilities. A total of 7,200 persons will directly benefit from this project such as community eye centre (3,000), community screenings (2,000), school screenings (2,000), and cataract surgeries (200) through the outreach programme in a year.