All investigations Concerning Ratina will be Conducted At "RNGH"

    

PATNA: Medical investigations of retina started here on Friday at the Rajendra Nagar Government Hospital (RNGH), a super speciality eye hospital developed by Bihar government in the state. The facility was launched in collaboration with AIIMS, New Delhi, which has provided technical assistance for the project.
Principal secretary, health, Amarjeet Sinha said, "We had started phacoemulsification eye surgery and glaucoma surgery at RNGH last year. Henceforth, all investigations concerning retina will be conducted at RNGH."
Dr Naresh Bimbisara of RNGH said Dr Rajyavardhan Azad, chief and professor, Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Science, AIIMS, New Delhi, who is also the chairman of the technical committee formed for the purpose of retina treatment, has extended all possible help to the institute. Laser-induced retinal eye surgery would start shortly at the institute, he added. Sinha said that laser machines had already been installed at the hospital for the purpose.
Dr Azad, who was present on the occasion, said, "AIIMS will provide free training to the doctors and other staff of RNGH to develop the institute as a specialized eye treatment centre. The training will be of seven days to three-month duration."
The state government will also shortly sign an MoU with the AIIMS, New Delhi, for development of the hospital and exchange of doctors between the two institutes, for which Union health minister has already given his nod. Under the exchange programme, experts will visit the hospital, check patients and conduct operations on given dates.
In 2008, in order to provide better eye treatment to the patients of the state, the Bihar government, at a high- level meeting chaired by CM Nitish Kumar, had decided to develop Rajendra Nagar Government Hospital (RNGH) into a ''super speciality eye hospital''. The reason behind opening the super speciality hospital was that people from across the state had to travel to Delhi, Chennai and Amritsar for eye treatment. This hospital would provide them better eye care facilities in the state itself.