NIRPHAD Eye Services Bajna
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| Project Name: |
NIRPHAD Eye Services Bajna |
| Project Description: |
Eye Care Programme
for Blind / Visually Disabled
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| Location: |
India North,
Bajna, Mathura
(Uttar Pradesh)
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| Project Information: |
Bajna, district Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, about 6 hrs by road from Delhi. The partner is Naujhil Intergrated Rural Project for Health Development (NIRPHAD). The project is a satellite of an existing eye project with the same partner at Vrindavan and serves a completely different rural population in an area of about 1,550 sq. kms. It provides community eye care services to a major portion of the district covering about 250 villages. Most of the area is backward and under-developed and the only occupation is agriculture on marginal land holdings. |
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