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CSR Eye Screening and Free Cataract Surgeries in Haryana her husband does farming in an acre of land, while Drishti Hanifa takes care of house and cattle. She has a few customers who buy buffaloes’ milk from her which is just about managing to earn, spend, and Smt. Hanifa W/o Shri. Ataru live one day at a time. Till around six months back, Age: 57 yrs a cloud of darkness gradually started extinguishing the light of joy from their lives. Her eye sight started Gender - Female fading in the right eye, and worry and fear had Address: Gram Uttawar, Palwal, Haryana taken over her life. She spent sleepless nights Eye operated – Right Eye (PHACO+PCIOL) worrying about her husband and children. Hanifa had no education or awareness to realize all she Date of Surgery: 01-12-2022 had was a cataract. In the eye camp sponsored by Lumax Charitable Foundation, her Cataract was diagnosed by the ophthalmologist. Hanifa narrated the financial constraints to the counsellor and requested for the support, to which the councellor told her that she doesn’t have to pay anything as her treatment financial will be covered by Lumax Charitable Foundation, and there was a sign of relief on her face. She was brought to the base hospital of ICARE in the ambulance along with other cataract identified patients. There all her pre-operative examination was conducted. Next day (1st December, 2022) surgery for right eye was planned, green patch from the operated eye was removed next day early Fifty-seven years old Hanifa lives in Uttawar, Palwal morning, to check her restored eye sight and she in Haryana. She has four boys and three girls all was discharged after giving her post-operative care married except her youngest son who is yet to get instructions and medicines by the doctor. married. She could see again from the operated eye and got Hanifa and her husband lives a very simple life, her hope back to live life independently again and they have some farmland in which they grow crops, spend quality time with her family.

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