G-2452

1000 Cataract Surgeries

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Project Description

Region: Asia

Country: Pakistan

Location: Multan

Total Budget: $45,500

Area of Focus: Disease prevention and treatment



Background

100 million people are pushed into poverty each year by medical costs. One in six people worldwide cannot pay for health care. Pakistan is primarily a poor country with average income of less than $2 a day for the daily wage earner.

Cataracts is the number one cause of blindness but is very much avoidable through a simple surgical procedure carried out under day care surgery.

Cataract is caused because of exposure to sunlight, malnutrition caused by vitamin deficiencies and overall poor socio-economic conditions.

Prolonged illness results into complete blindness which is easily avoidable by a simple day care surgical procedure. New techniques such as phecoemulsification suture less surgery have become frequently common. This procedure results in early recovery and is minimally invasive. The benefits are amazing and patient is back to normal life within a weak and has minimal impact on his economic status especially in the case of daily wage earners.

Present Scenario, Economic Impact

During the present condition of COVID 19 many have been home bound with no opportunity to earn even the basic sustenance income because of lock down and shut down of businesses.

This has happened !

Eroded their financial health and many of the existing cataract patients are under immense stress to get their surgeries done within a short window of time in order to prevent permanent blindness. There is a strong possibility of these people slipping away into the abject poverty spiral permanently as a result of their blindness if remain untreated.

Rotary Club of Multan Cantt intends to improve and access to low cost and free healthcare by offering free Cataract surgeries to underserved population.

One of Rotary's areas of focus is Disease Prevention and our club members have a passion towards Blindness prevention and Rotary Club of Multan Cantt in D 3272 has undertaken and successfully completed many projects in this area since 2005. This includes 3 matching grants and one International club to club project back in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

Partner Organization

Mian Fazal Rehman Hospital a health project of Fazal Rehman Foundation has a wealth of experience in

Cataract surgeries and have performed around 24,000successful surgeries. They have offered to partner with us to perform free surgeries using the latest phecoemulsification procedure at their facility offering medical services free. Rotary Club of Multan Cantt will share the consumable expense of the surgery to help the less fortunate of society.

The project will cover not only for the consumable expense of the surgery but also provide the medicines for postoperative care and sun glasses to the patients. The patients will also be screened for viral diseases prior to surgery as a safety protocol.

The Global Grant Project under consideration will involves Rotarians around the world to sponsor 1000 cataract surgeries.

Primary Host Partner

District: 3272

Rotary Club of: Multan Cantt

Primary Contact: Salman Mubarak

Email: sulmanmubarak@gmail.com

Primary International Partner

District: 5110

Rotary Club of: Florence

Primary Contact: Ron Caputo

Email: roncaputo@charter.net

Project Status

Dropped
This project has been "Dropped". Check the history log entries to see why it was dropped.

Project listed for the 2020-21 Rotary Year.

Proposed Financing

Existing Contributions Towards This Project

Date

Cash

DDF

Total

Multan Cantt (3272)

30-May-20

$2,000

$1,000

$3,000

Florence (5110)

1-Jun-20

$2,000

$3,000

$5,000

Forest (7570)

4-Jun-20

$500

$0

$500

Wailuku, Maui (5000)

8-Jun-20

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Lahaina Sunrise (5000)

9-Jun-20

$1,000

$0

$1,000

San Bernardino Crossroads (5330)

24-Jun-20

$100

$0

$100

Sun City (5495)

25-Jun-20

$1,000

$0

$1,000

Remaining Amount to Raise

Additional Club Contribution (Needed) - Add a contribution

$29,900

-

$29,900

Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation

-

$4,000

$4,000

Total

$45,500

DDF contributions in grey are pending approval of the corresponding district committee.

Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.

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History Log Entries

30-May-20

by Salman Mubarak

System Entry: Creation of project page.

1-Jun-20

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $2,000 with $3,000 DDF by Ron Caputo of the Rotary Club of Florence, District 5110.

4-Jun-20

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $500 by Dana Guthrie of the Rotary Club of Forest, District 7570.

5-Jun-20

by Salman Mubarak

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Mark Harbison of the Rotary Club of Wailuku, Maui, District 5000.

8-Jun-20

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Hugh Chare of the Rotary Club of Wailuku, Maui, District 5000.

9-Jun-20

by Salman Mubarak

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Rosalyn Baker of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunrise, District 5000.

24-Jun-20

System Entry

System Entry: Pledge of $100 by Bricia ElAawar of the Rotary Club of San Bernardino Crossroads, District 5330.

25-Jun-20

by Steve Bjornstad

System Entry: Pledge of $1,000 by Steve Bjornstad of the Rotary Club of Sun City, District 5495.

2-Sep-21

System Entry

System Entry: Project dropped per lack of response to the carry-over notification emails.

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