Thank you for the generous donation you have made towards restoring the eyesight of people living in

and around your village. The following will explain to you the manner in which the eye camps are

conducted as well as the services included as part of the eye camp. For your benefit we have used a

question and answer format to answer some basic questions:

A: TANA Foundation has been working with several hospitals in Andhra Pradesh to conduct the eye

camps. The hospitals are:

1) R. R. Lions Eye Hospital – Palakol, W. Godavari Dt.

2) Sankar Foundation – Vishakapatnam

3) Lions Eye Hospital – Karimnagar

4) Sankara Eye Hospital – Pedakakani, Guntur

5) Bolineni Eye Hospital – Nellore

6) RR Lions Eye Hospital – Secunderabad

7) Lions Eye Hospital – Nandigaum, Krishna Dt.

8) Vyasa Asramam, Yerpedu, Chittoor Dt

The hospital used to conduct your camp depends upon the proximity of the hospital to your village as

well as the scheduling conflicts at the hospital.

A: No. All surgeries are done in modern air-conditioned operation theatres at the hospitals. The work

done at the campsite is primarily screening of the patients to determine the need for surgery and testing to

ensure the patients have no health complications such as diabetes, Glaucoma, blood pressure, or

infections.

A: The $600/- donation you have made covers the following –

a) Screening of all patients who come to the camp

b) Surgeries for up to 60 patients who need cataract surgeries to restore their eyesight.

c) Testing of patients for eyesight and give eyeglass prescriptions.

A: The hospital team will not turn away anyone who needs a cataract surgery. TANA Foundation will go

ahead and pay the hospital. After the camp is over TANA Foundation will send you a camp report and the

cost overruns if any. Please reimburse the cost overruns to TANA Foundation. Each additional cataract

Surgery over and above the 60 surgeries will be requested of you to reimburse at the rate of $10 per

surgery. For eg: If the camp was very successful and 100 cataract surgeries were performed we will be

requesting $400 from you.

A: The cataract surgery is completely free to the patient. The patient is provided the following:

a) Free transportation to-and-from the hospital.

b) Meals for the days as well as a place to sleep.

c) Free medications that are needed during recovery from the surgery.

It should be noted that the accommodations are basic but hygienic.

A: No. The outpatients are given prescriptions for eyeglasses if possible

A: The eye hospital contacts the Local Contact Person whose name and phone number you have

provided. The contact person will be requested to do the following things a few days before the camp:

a) Work with the hospital in selecting a proper venue, such as the local high school, Primary

Health Care Center or other convenient place that can handle a crowd of two-to-three

hundred people.

b) Arrange for a shamiana and chairs in the event the venue does not have a proper shaded area

where the patients can wait in the shade.

c) Arrange to distribute to the people living in the village and surrounding villages the posters

and pamphlets provided by the hospital

d) Arrange for an auto rickshaw to tour the neighboring villages and announce the date and time

of the free camp. (Will typically cost $12/- per day)

e) Arrange for lunch on the day of the camp for the team of 15 paramedical staff, camp

coordinators, and doctors who will be conducting the camp.

f) The total cost of organizing the camp will be a little over Rs. 5000/- to be borne by your local

contact.

g) If the place to conduct the camp is far from the hospital then overnight accommodations may

be required for the hospital staff.

A: Please let TANA Foundation know before and it will arrange for the hospital to hand over the

expenses to the Local Contact Person to defray the cost of the eye camp where possible. TANA

Foundation would appreciate if you could reimburse the expenses. Not all the hospitals are equipped to

do this.

A: Please let us know prior to the camp and we will inform the hospital to provide free eyeglasses. After

the camp is over you can donate the appropriate amount to TANA Foundation. Not all hospitals are able

to provide this service.

A: Definitely. You can make your own arrangements for paying for the eyeglasses and camp expenses.

A: Cost of surgery varies from hospital to hospital in India. Charitable Eye Hospitals that we work with

get a compensation of Rs.750 from District Blindness Control Society. For the amount of service that

needs to be provided to a patient this is not sufficient. So TANA Foundation donates your contribution to

strengthen the good work done by the hospitals.

A: We request the hospitals to do this. But some of the hospitals are not equipped to do this and so

request your local contacts to put up these.