Standard Chartered Bank, Tilganga join hands to eliminate blindness

Standard Chartered Bank Nepal (SCBN), in its effort to eliminate avoidable blindness, has joined hands with Tilganga Eye Center for conducting at least 15 eye screening camps for underserved population in the Kathmandu Valley and neighboring districts.
Sujit Mundul, chief executive officer of the bank, and Dr Sanduk Ruit, medical director at Tilganga, signed an agreement to this effect on the occasion of the World Sight Day on Monday.

Under the agreement, the bank will be sponsoring cataract surgeries at the Tilganga Hospital for 700 needy patients from the targeted 6,000 OPD cases to be screened in those camps, states a press release. These cataract surgeries and other eye care facilities are being extended from the funds the bank raised through Walkathon, an annual event of the bank, and other charity events.

SCBN has been organizing various awareness and fund raising events for its community initiatives such as ´seeing is believing´ and ´living with HIV/AIDS´. The bank has already sponsored more than 4,000 cataract surgeries in Nepal over the last few years.

Source: Myrepublica.com