Leprosy
Leprosy is a grossly misunderstood disease over the generations. A potentially crippling disease, it is a visible ailment. Unlike other diseases, social stigma arising out of fear, ignorance and superstitious beliefs create barriers in detection, treatment and cure of leprosy.
It is a chronic, mildly infectious disease affecting the skin, nerves and mucus membrane.
Modern science believes transmission of the disease through the air as a major channel. Leprosy is not hereditary and is completely curable now with modern drugs
Patients under regular and adequate treatment cannot transmit the disease to other people.
Leprosy is of two kinds: Paucibacillary (PB) and Multibacillary (MB). In MB cases the bacilli are present in enormous numbers, and therefore, they can transmit leprosy to susceptible individuals. If the MB patients are not under treatment they may put whole communities at risk.
Tuberculosis
TB is: Everyman's disease regardless of social class, highly contagious and life threatening. Pakistan ranks 6th among the 22 high burden countries in the world (WHO Report on Global Tuberculosis - 2004). TB mostly infects the lungs, but may be found in any part and organ of the body (except thyroid gland). It my by hard-to-detect unless the Medical Officer or patient thinks of the diagnosis patient takes his medicines irregularly may develop multiple drug resistance. TB is completely curable, but when the patients infect others, this Multi-drug Resistance (MDR) is passed on as well
Community Eye Care Programme
Community Eye Care Program focuses on both preventive and curative aspects of the major causes of blindness like Cataract, Trachoma, Vitamin A Deficiency, Refraction Errors, Glaucoma and others. We mainly work in un-served or underserved areas across the country.
Our aim is “To minimize avoidable blindness in our project areas by registration of patient with potentially blinding condition on care cards and follow them until optimal treatment provided.”
Our main activities are:
- Regular Field / Centre based out patient consultation.
- Regular school surveys to screen children with eye problems
- Diagnosis / treatment / referral of patient for proper care.
Holding of surgical Eye camps for needy patients suffering from treatable blindness especially due to Cataract.