Many of the rural population are deprived of basic medical services, not only because of poverty, but also because of their physical inaccessibility to the available services. In order to provide ophthalmic services to the rural & deprived section of the society. KEHRC organizes out reach camps in different villages of its operational area. A special team comprising of Ophthalmologist, Refractionist, & other support staff are engazed for this purpose. Two-passenger vehicle are especially devoted for taking medical team to the camp site& bringing the patients to the base hospital.

PPP and KEHRC joins hand to fight against blindness :

Lack of effective health care, proper educations, awareness, lack of ophthalmic service, uneasy conveniences are the major problems of the area of the Jajpur and Dhenkanal District. Health care was one of the biggest problems here. After NYSASDRI's PPP project has been commenced, slowly but steadily the health care system is slowly but steadily changing. Even then the eye care still remains the issue as under the current project nothing much can be achieved. However NYSASDRI in order to upkeep its commitment to provide eye care to the most under privileged in the society has added ophthalmic services to the PPP kitty. . Addition of ophthalmic in PPP module is another benefit for those people, which are depriving from ophthalmic services, like unreached, poverty stricken, old age, people struggling their life for avoidable blindness due to cataract. These people can be recognized and sent them for cataract extraction at KEH, after surgery, they will get back to their site, and will see the world better. . Addition of ophthalmic in PPP module is another benefit for those people, which are depriving from ophthalmic services, like unreached, poverty stricken, old age, people struggling their life for avoidable blindness due to cataract. These people can be recognized and sent them for cataract extraction at KEH, after surgery, they will get back to their site, and will see the world better. The eye screening centres would provide 1. Free diagnosis & consultation. 2. Spectacle to all type of age group under needy category and in case of pediatric cases it is free of cost. 3. Eye care awareness through camps & screening and refer to KEH in case of surgery & complicated eye problem. One clinical Ophthalmic Assistant cum Refractionist is also working here, so patients having refractive error can also be treated here.

Let us eradicate the needless blindness from the society :

Do you know 37 milion people in the world are blind and 28 milion of them that their eye sight can be restored. So please come foreword and help us in identifying these people or child who can get their sight restored only by you. Kalinga Eye Hospital an institutional member of Vision 2020, is not only providing the clinical treatments to the community, but also educating the community about different eye problems, precautions, creating awareness in the community about the primary eye care. By this type of education to the community, the community will get an awareness about eye care, which will help them to see better & can improve their quality of life. This will satisfy the objective of KEH & Vision 2020.

For Child Eye Care :

Every minute a child goes blind in this world, so can you imagine the number of blind children are there in our society? Only 10% of the blind children able to survive in this world and rest even could able to cross 5 years of their life in blindness. We know the child are the future of our nation but if children will goes blind in the same ratio as now then the future of our nation is in DARK.
That why KEHRC has started different activities to eradicate the childhood blindness and making a brighter India. These activities includes providing training to the school teacher, Anganwadi workers, village volunteers & SHG members on identifying the ocular problem of any persons in their locality. Also includes School Screening program, child eye camps etc. After identifying these pediatric cases, KEH is providing them the necessary clinical treatments as well as free spectacles to the poor & needy children.

Capacity Building of Rural Service Personnel :

In the state of Orissa, status of pediatric eye care services is poorer than adult eye care. Pediatric eye care requires specific expertise, equipment and training . Major barriers to childhood cataract surgery in Orissa are absence of adequate trained pediatric eye care personnel and anesthetists, lack of high volume cataract surgical setup where pediatric eye care facility can be developed, lack of awareness and skill to detect congenital
cataract in children and absence of outreach services to identify and treat children with cataract and refractive error. Prevalence of refractive error (visual acuity <6/9) among children could be as high as 5% according to an estimate made by the Government of India. Refractive error in children, if untreated, almost always leads to poor academic performance and results in students dropping out of their education system. Refractive error in children can easily be corrected by providing a pair of spectacles.So KEHRC has taken the initiative to identify each & every children with ocular problem & then its treatment, but to find out the children even from the rural unreached areas, KEHRC has started providing training to the Anganwadi Workers, village Volunteers & School Teachers.

Vision Screening For School Children Begins In Dhenkanal :

Now the children of the Dhenkanal and adjoining districts will get a chance to screen their eyes, thanks to the special initiative undertaken by the Kalinga Eye Hospital & Research Centre. In an attempt to provide eye care to the children of this region ORBIS International will put support technically and financially to KEHRC. Till 2008, Kalinga Eye Hospital & Research Center has screened 53153 number of school children & also provided 530 number of spectacle with free of cost to the poor & needy school children having refractive error.