The British Asian Trust Blog
We join 1,300 patients ready to regain their eyesight at the Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust Hospital in Lahore.
Futures in Sight
It’s only 9 am, but treatment is already underway for more than a thousand patients at Lahore’s LRBT Hospital.
They have come to regain their sight. Eighty percent of blindness is curable and here they will be treated for cataracts, glaucoma, and all other eye ailments. Their care is free — LRBT believes that no-one should be blind because they can’t afford treatment. The Lahore LRBT hospital is one of 16 throughout Pakistan.
We are welcomed by the hospital’s Director Col. Iqtadar Hussain who explains the streamlined ‘production line’ system that allows LRBT to treat so many patients. Patients follow a succession of steps from reception to release. Illiterate patients receive coloured cards that match the door colours of the departments they need to visit – red for examinations, green for cataracts etc, he explains.
Continue reading Day 4: On the Ground in Pakistan - Lahore…
Despite bleak prospects following last summer’s floods, we find inspiration in Developments in Literacy schools where children are realising their aspirations.
Readers are the Leaders!
Bougainvillea spills over the walls and yellow zinnias frame the garden of the Indus Resource Centre guest house in Khairpur, our home last night. Outside the walled garden donkeys bray and I can hear the muezzin in the distance as we await a taxi to Sukkur Airport and our return to Lahore.
Continue reading Day 3: On the Ground in Pakistan - Khairpur…
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