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Kolkata, West Bengal, India:
Johnson & Johnson Vision*, a world chief in the attention well being class and a component of Johnson & Johnson MedTech**, and Lions Clubs International Foundation celebrated 20 years of ‘Sight For Kids’, their school-based eye well being program. Co-founded by Johnson & Johnson Vision and Lions Clubs International Foundation in 2002, the Sight For Kids program goals to bridge the hole in entry to eye care by offering complete eye well being providers for kids from low-income and underserved communities. To mark the event, a imaginative and prescient screening for over 500 kids was organised in Kolkata, West Bengal.
The two-day program occurred at Lions Safari Park and Calcutta Greater Vidya Mandir School. Witnessing main eye care professionals, native ophthalmological associations, NGO/group companions, Johnson & Johnson Vision representatives, and native Lions had been current to honour the trigger. The Sight For Kids program has operated throughout West Bengal since 2004.
In the final 20 years, this system has reached greater than 42 million college students in underserved communities in Asia, Africa, and the U.S., offering eye well being remedy to 600,000 kids the world over. In India, by a group and a school-based mannequin, Sight For Kids has facilitated imaginative and prescient evaluation for 37 million kids. The program has geared up communities with important instruments to make sure kids have entry to eye care for clear and wholesome imaginative and prescient.
Emphasizing the group’s purpose to raise eye well being consciousness in India, Tiny Sengupta, Business Unit Director, Vision Care India, Johnson & Johnson Vision stated, “It is an absolute honour to partner with Lions Clubs International Foundation and celebrate the 20-year milestone of Sight For Kids. Healthy eyesight plays a critical role in early childhood development – from a child’s academic performance to co-curricular activities self-esteem and overall well-being. However, globally, more than 312 million children suffer from myopia, and half of them continue to live undetected and untreated. Every child deserves a chance to see the world clearly. Through Sight for Kids, we are not only bringing free eye care to children who need it the most, but also training school teachers to identify children suffering from vision impairment or eye ailments.”
To date, Sight For Kids has offered 500,000 thousand pairs of eyeglasses to kids the world over, to empower them to grasp their desires.
Commenting on the significance of growing entry to eye care, Mr. A. P. Singh, Third Vice President, Lions Clubs International Foundation, Lions Clubs International Foundation stated, “Together with Johnson & Johnson Vision, we are proud to see our Lions and eye care professionals work towards achieving our mission of providing comprehensive eye health services to underprivileged children to equip them with clear and healthy vision. Through our extensive engagements, we found that teachers are in a unique position to identify behavioural changes and notice when children suffer from vision impairment. This critical insight has led us to bolster our approach by training 200,000 teachers across the world to date.”
‘Sight For Kids’ is one of the longest operating public-private vision-screening packages in the world, that gives academics with coaching to ship eye well being training and carry out visible acuity exams for widespread eye circumstances with the assist of optometrists. Johnson & Johnson Vision in partnership with Lions Clubs International Foundation envisions reaching kids throughout borders to offer them with wholesome eyesight and try in direction of larger fairness in eye care.
About Johnson & Johnson Vision
At Johnson & Johnson Vision, half of Johnson & Johnson MedTech**, we now have a daring ambition: to vary the trajectory of eye well being worldwide. Through our working corporations, we ship innovation that permits eye care professionals to create higher outcomes for sufferers all through their lives, with merchandise and applied sciences that tackle unmet wants together with refractive error, cataracts, and dry eye. In communities with best want, we work in collaboration to increase entry to high quality eye care, and we’re dedicated to serving to folks see higher, join higher, reside higher.
Visit us at jjvision.com, comply with @JNJVision on Twitter, Johnson & Johnson Vision on LinkedIn, and @JNJVision on Facebook.
About Johnson & Johnson MedTech
At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, we unleash various healthcare experience, purposeful know-how, and a ardour for folks to remodel the long run of medical intervention and empower everybody to reside their finest life attainable. For greater than a century, we now have pushed breakthrough scientific innovation to handle unmet wants and reimagine well being. In surgical procedure, orthopaedics, imaginative and prescient, and interventional options, we proceed to assist save lives and create a future the place healthcare options are smarter, much less invasive, and extra customized.
*Johnson & Johnson Vision represents the merchandise and providers of Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc., Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc., and the associates of each.
**Johnson & Johnson MedTech includes the surgical procedure, orthopaedics, imaginative and prescient and interventional options companies inside Johnson & Johnson’s MedTech phase.
