Globally, blindness in children is responsible for only 3% of all blindness. How ever childhood blindness is important because of the number of years that the children has to live with visual disability compared to an adult. Therefore adult onset blindness is much  more commoner , life expectancies across the developing countries being in the range of 50-70 years, the number of “life years with disability” is higher for children. An adult going blind at the age of 50 years can look forward to another 10-20 years of productive years of life if left untreated while a child blinded today will still be alive with disability in 2050AD even if the current rate of life expectancy continuous. The concept of “blind years saved” is very useful in arguing for allocation of resources for childhood blindness because restoring the sight of one child with a paediatric cataract is equivalent to restoring sights of 10 elderly blind cataract individuals.

So being the first Paediatric eye care centre in the entire state having all the trained staff members, with in a two years time, the team has screened more than 63,000 children and has conducted more than 100 paediatric eye surgeries. Not only that it is also empowering the community to identify and refer the children affected with any kind of ocular problems.

Also International & National Paaediatric Ophthalmologists such as Dr. William David Newman, Liverpool, Dr. Anand Waijwade of Meeraj, Maharastra, Dr. Mihir Kothari, Mumbai & etc are extending their kind support in time to time to strengthen the Paediatric Eye Care programmes through different Hospital Base Programme and Continuing Medical Education Programme.