Guru Nanak Eye Centre

The investigation lab props the Ophthalmic care  and has Ophthalmic machines including Anterior segment optical coherence  tomography, posterior segment optical coherence tomography, ultra-biomicroscopy,  ultrasound, visual fields, specular microscopy, focimeter, biometry  machine,  Pelli Robson charts for  contrast sensitivity testing, potential acuity meter, Orbscan, visually evoked  potential machine, eletro-retinography machine and glaucoma diagnostics. The  LASIK machine for removing need for glasses treats about twenty patients per  week.

The specialty clinics are run in the afternoon  from 1 pm onwards with state of art facilities for treating patients having  specific diseases. The Paeditaric Ophthalmology Clinic has Perkins tonometer,  Plus-Optix for biometry in children, Hand held keratometer, hand held slit lamp  and B-VAC machine for visual acuity testing in children. The Squint Clinic has  Lees Chart, synoptophore, prism bars and special Snellen’s charts for testing  visual acuity and squint examination. The Retina Clinic has diode LASER, Argon  Green LASER, Micro pulse LASER, fluorescein angiography, indocyanine green  angiography and HD Optical Coherence Tomography for diagnosing and treating  retinal diseases. The cornea clinic not only treats patients of corneal  diseases but also does LASIK surgery for removal of glasses and runs an Eye  Bank for Eye Donation and doing corneal transplants. The Oculopasty clinic  treats patients of epiphora, naso-lacrimal duct blockage, ocular tumors,  orbital fractures and the like. The Contact lens clinic prescribes soft lenses,  rigid gas permeable and prosthetic lenses to the patents to treat diseases like  high refractive errors, corneal ectasia, corneal opacities, amblyopia, etc. The  Neuro-Ophthalmology clinic treats patients having optic nerve and central nervous  system disorders.

The Ward Block has more than 212 beds placed in  spacious and clean stretches. The wards have adequate water facilities,  lighting and are well ventilated and cleaned regularly about three times a day.  The Nursing staff administers medicines and other care as advised to the  patients along with active record keeping. The kitchen provides healthy and  nutritious food to the patients on routine basis and special diet to the  relevant patients as advised. The Nursing home has twenty separate rooms which  are equipped with air conditioners and regular facilities.

The Guru Nanak Eye Centre is on journey to  relentless development with seemingly no halt, to keep abreast with upcoming  technology and machines like femtolaser, microwave based optimaser, contact  lens sterilizer, optical coherence tomography angiography, retcam, to speak the  least, are already in pipeline. The Centre does not lag behind any world class  Ophthalmic institute with knowledge and technology going hand in hand to eradicate  blindness.