Agra, UTTAR PRADESH :
The eye camp is organised by the Quresh Welfare Society.
The Quresh Welfare Society organised the 35th Free Eye Camp in Agra today, which was inaugurated by the Chief Medical Officer of Agra, Dr M K Vats, while the ceremony was presided over by former SN Medical College Principal Dr G U Qureshi.
The chief guest was Dr S K Satsangi, former Head of Department, Opthalmology, SN Medical College, Agra.
Talking to India Today, Dr Himanshu Yadav, current Head of Department, Opthalmology, SN Medical College, Agra said that it was a very impressive feat to be organising such a charitable eye camp for 35 years in a row, and the medical fraternity was proud to be associated with such events where the health services were being made available for the poor as charity.
Society Secretary Mohd Arif Advocate informed that the society had been running this charitable eye camp for 35 years now, without taking any monetary aid from the government.
This eye camp is organised in the areas inhabited by the poor, who are then helped without discriminating them on the basis of caste or religion.
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