ADAPTING TO THE NEW NORMAL
Within months of its inauguration in January 2020, the team at Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Eye Hospital in Gaya witnessed unprecedented challenges levied by the pandemic. With eye camps and large gatherings suspended due to the pandemic, the LNJP hospital was attending to only emergency cases during the months of March until May 2020. However, in order to ensure that the community was not bereft of eye health services, the hospital team adapted to the new ways of working by proactively reaching out to the communities. The door-to-door visits and follow-up by calls to the patients ensured that there was no backlog of cases and the vulnerable populations of this region received adequate access to eye care. Despite the onset of the pandemic within months of its launch, the LNJP Eye Hospital has relentlessly worked towards enabling eye care to communities in need. The hospital covers a population of 70 lakhs around Gaya, Nawada and Jehanabad districts that are within 50 kms radial distance. Over the last one year, the hospital has provided eye-screening for 3,647 people and has enabled 3,559 surgeries at no cost to the patient. 09
