Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) has recently organized 25 free-of-cost eye camps which have benefitted nearly 27,000 under privileged locals residing around the company-operated Sui, Mazarani, Gambat South and Adhi fields in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab. The camps were held between November 18 and December 13 in partnership with Al Shifa Trust Eye Hospital.
Together, more than 16,000 locals were screened and treated at various healthcare facilities and Basic Health Units in relevant districts around PPL-operated fields. Around9,000 were given glasses for vision correction and more than 1,500 patients underwent cataract surgeries.
The highest number of patients, around10,000, were witnessed during the eye camps in Balochistan, at Public Welfare Hospital, Sui and District Headquarter Hospital, Dera Bugti. Besides, four camps were held in the vicinity of Adhi Field and 16at government schoolsin Punjab benefitting 3000 students.
Further, eye camps are planned around Kandhkot in Sindh and in Dhok Sultan, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The annual PPL eye camps have reached out to marginalized communities in remote areas of the country and provided quality consultation, latest onsite surgical technology, and medicines.
