Many residents made their sensitive visionary indicators last a lifetime on Sunday, June 22 at the Forderville Primary School between 10am and 2pm.
The eye tests performed didn’t only analyse ones sight or visual defects it also discovered underlying health problems.
Because we depend on our eyes so much it was worth paying the eye clinic a visit to have them checked at no cost.
The eye-testing clinic was hosted by the Sathya Sai Seva Organisation South Africa (Estcourt Sai Centre).
According to Optometrist Pooben Naidoo some of the attendants had difficulties purchasing glasses, as they are pensioners.
Some of the other most common problems that surfaced on Sunday were that many of the elderly people who paid the clinic a visit on Sunday had cataracts, meaning that their lenses were fogged up.
In cases as such referrals were issued in order to pay the hospital a visit to get that seen to.
One attendant who had suffered from an eye ulcer for two weeks had to pay an optometrist practitioner a visit.
The eye exam performed at the clinic was a basic test.
Reading issues were common among the scholars; they had difficulties identifying numbers and alphabets from a distance.
A total of 42 patients were attended to, 29 residents walked away with their sensory organs protected with the glasses dispensed and 13 special cases were sent to the laboratory in Durban.
The Sathya Sai Seva Organisation (Estcourt Sai Centre) thanks local optometrist Angela Plows and Pooben Naidoo (optometrist from Durban) for their unconditional and selfless service rendered.
May they be blessed abundantly in all their endeavours.