SINDH RURAL SUPPORT ORGANIZATION

EMERGENCY RESPONSE

Against Rain & Flood-2022

SRSO Distributions

  • Rs.1.37 billion by extending
  • Their immediate relief and recovery
  • Services to 186,331 families of
  • Pakistan under SRSO Flood
  • Emergency Response 2022
  • From August-December 2022.

HelpAge decided to support older people and their families in the most impoverished areas in Shikarpur. Five free Eye Camps were organized in Basic Health unit and Rural Health Centers of District Shikarpur by Sindh Rural Support Organization in collaboration with HelpAge International, Sights avers and Al Shifa Eye Trust Hospital Sukkur.
Older people and their families received free medical consultations, 1012 patients have been diagnosed, treated and provided with free medication and spectacles and 161 patients were selected for cataract surgery at Al-Shifa Eye Trust Sukkur. Patients who were diagnosed of cataract were transported to Sukkur by a special bus, provided by Al Shifa Eye Trust Hospital and Operated upon free of cost by qualified surgeons.
There will also be follow up treatment for all the patients who received eye surgery for at least two months. This is to monitor the success of the intervention by ensuring that all patients with eye operations have no complications