Dang when Jyoti returned from surgery in the village

'There is no one as old as me who has undergone surgery,' she said, 'It was like I could not see again, it was like I got a new life.' has been

Meena Gharti of Ribdikot rural municipality-8, Fek, who has not been able to see well for years, shed tears of joy when she saw the light. Meena, who went to Kusumkhola in Ribdikot for surgery with her daughter Rupa, could not stop thanking the village council and the doctors when she saw the light. "For many years, she stopped seeing with her eyes," she said.

Like Sinjali and Gharti, 81 people of Ribdikot Rural Municipality have succeeded in returning the lost light. The number of people with cataracts, cataracts and vision problems in the village is still high. Sunil Adhikari, Head of Health Branch of Ribdikot Rural Municipality, said that if the eye does not reach the hospital in time, it becomes a victim of blindness. "To solve the problem of eye diseases, the screening was carried out by going to Toltol," he said. Keeping this problem in mind, Ribdikot Rural Municipality has arranged to provide eye treatment in the village. Village Chairman Narayan Bahadur Karki said that the arrangement for treatment and surgery for those who needed it was made in the village. He said that when reaching the

village, the eye examination camp will be held and this program will be organized according to the suggestions of the citizens to identify patients. According to President Karki, in the screening conducted by reaching all 8 wards and running a campaign for 23 days, when 5,200 people were examined, 139 people were found to have lost their eyesight due to problems such as cataracts.

There are also people who are visually impaired due to cataracts and other problems. Kanta Adhikari, the vice president of the rural municipality, said that the citizens were happy to be able to perform eye examination and surgery in the village for those who cannot afford expensive transport fare and accommodation. "There was a lot of enthusiasm among the citizens when they reached the village," she said. Chief administrative officer Lekhnath Pokharel said that he tried to show the world to those who have lost their eyesight. It has also given meaning to the slogan of ``I will build my Ribdikot,'' he said, ``The happiness seen in the people is the happiness of the local government.''

He said that this program is important to assure the citizens that the local government is with them. The rural municipality used to bring elderly citizens and sick Kurua from house to house for eye surgery. Spokesperson Prakash Rayamazhi said that food and accommodation have been arranged.

He said that arrangements will be made to send Tansen and Bhairahawa to the eye patients who could not come to Kusumkhola. Ward president Omprakash Pokharel said that based on the nature of the eye disease, experts were called in the village for examination and surgery. He said that the problem of cataracts is more common among senior citizens.

Apart from this, eye problems have started to appear due to cataracts, vision problems and pressure sugar, said Santosh Darji, Outreach Coordinator of Palpa Lions Lakaul Eye Hospital.