The three-day Jharkhand Ophthalmological Society's conference concluded on Sunday where experts from across the nation discussed in detail about challenges, advance treatment of eyes, diseases including the progress being made in ophthalmology stream.
Technical session was held on the theme of Retinopathy of Pre Maturity. Dr. Poonam Singh, Dr. Vijaya Jojo, Dr. Subodh, Dr. Parijat Chandra, Dr. SP Tiwari, Dr. Rakesh, Dr. Malay Kumar Divedi and Dr. Anshuman Sinha expressed their views. Speaker Dr. SP Jakhanwal presented his views on the scenario of Ophthalmology Practice in the country. Further, Dr. Mohita Sharma highlighted on corneal topography check.
In the lecture, Dr. Prashant Agnihotri said that the present age is of Artificial Intelligence. “Artificial intelligence will be used in the medical field in the coming times. Nowadays a computer based on Artificial Intelligence is being invented which will be available for medical persons in the near future. It works on computer based Artificial Intelligence. There is a data feed of diseases of thousands of patients. For example, when the patient of the diabetic retinopathy sits on the computer, the computer diagnoses the grade of its diabetic retinopathy on the basis of that data bank, and the computer also explains what kind of treatment the patient needs and how much,” Agnihotri added.
During the Retina update session, Dr. Ravi, Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh, Dr. Bibhuti P Kashyap, Dr. Prashant Agnihotri, Dr. Mohita Sharma, Dr. SP Tiwari, Dr. Abhishek Gupta and Dr. Anshuman Sinha gave detailed information on different aspects related to retina.
Dr. Bihubti P. Kashyap said that the person with ruptured retina must be immediately operated as in such situation; there are high chances of person losing his or eye sights, if not given proper medical treatment. Further, Dr. Mohita Sharma, Founder Secretary, Women’s Ophthalmology Society of India informed that we had established the Women's Ophthalmology Society of India three years ago; its main objective is to provide equal opportunity to women ophthalmologists to expand their reach in their selected domain.
Meanwhile, Dr. Swati Tomar, Head of Rajasthan State Eye Bank said, “Blindness is one of the major health problems in developing countries. According to the National Program for Control of Blindness, approximately 68 million people have less than 6/60 vision in at least one eye, it is estimated that there are over 12 thousand cornea-borne blindness in the country. An estimate suggests that the number of visually impaired people is increasing every year from 25 to 30 thousand corneas in the country.”
“The factors responsible for corneal blindness vary with age. Based on the signs of keratoplasty in adults living in less developed countries, the important causes of corneal blindness are corneal scars and inactive Kyritsis for pediatric age groups in the developing world for Keratoplasty. The most common signs have been reported to obtain non-traumatic marks,” Tomar added.
“Human organ transplantation is one of the most notable successes in the history of medical science; it is the only hope for people with disabilities. Organ donation is the greatest gift that one can ever make,” Tomar added stated.
