Standard Chartered to sponsor cataract surgeries

KATHMANDU, OCT 12: 

Standard Chartered Bank Nepal will soon enter into an agreement with Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology and other eye hospitals with a pledge to sponsor cataract surgeries for underprivileged and economically backward people of the country, according to a bank statement. The bank made the announcement coinciding with World Sight Day, which was observed on Thursday. 

Earlier, the bank had contributed a sum of US$1.1 million (Rs 85 million) to build Biratnagar Eye Hospital, with the objective of reinforcing the bank´s “Seeing is Believing” agenda in Nepal. The bank, in 2011, signed an agreement with Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology to sponsor 1,000 cataract surgeries between 2011/12. The bank has so far been instrumental in restoration of sights of over 6,000 poor and underprivileged people since the launch of the campaign in year 2003, the statement says.

Source: Republica