Dr. Bharat Desai's Blog

Blindness is a state of being sightless or say an inability to see. World Health Organization - WHO (1972) tells blindness as the inability to count fingers at the distance of 3 meters in day-light after best possible spectacle correction in the better eye OR visual field less than 10° around the centre of fixation.

Blindness is of three TYPES:
Loss of visual acuity.Colour blindness: Inability to recognize colours, andNight blindness: Night vision is damaged.

I was one of the brightest of students during my academic career. I respected my teachers and I was their favorite student. I have studied upto 28 years of age to pass M.S. in Ophthalmology and practiced for 32 years. I know practicing in small village-like town does bring more practice and less money. I was the only eye specialist available serving needy poor of the area for more than two decades.

I have worked as honorary visiting eye-surgeon at Eye camps organized at Adivasi (tribal) and poor areas of Vansda, Ahwa, Dharampur for long time - at Gram Seva Trust, Kharel and Bodhi Gaya (Bihar) eye-camps for more than five years. I am working at Rotary Eye Hospital, Chikhali till today in addition to my private practice.

Use of computer is unavoidable in day to day life of an individual dealing with IT industry and such other professions. It is not a safe thing to go using computer carelessly. Then What? The answer to such questions follows. Our science tells following 10 rules to be taken care of.