Her ( Priceless) million dollar smile came again. 

This is the story of a girl named Yogita Paliwal aged 13 years. This girl was suffering from congenital mystagmus ( non-voluntary continuous movement of eyes balls). Her father Prem Shanker is a labourer earing Rs. 70/- a day while mother Hemlata Paliwal is a housewife.
This girl visited Alakh Nayan Mandir for the first time in 2004 when she was 8 years old. As her vision was very good at that time, she was advised glasses with a very small refraction correction. She was also prescribed multivitamin capsules. Due to god vision she was not operated upon. With the passage of time, due to mystagmus, Yogita started turning head for seeing objects cleary.
During eye examination by a local NGO-NICE Foundation, it was suspected that she needs because of c/o blurred. She was referred to Alakh Nayan Mandir for further examination and second opinion. She thus come for eye check up on 21.10.09.
On examination by Pediatric ophthalmologist, it was observed that Yogita had started turning her face towards right side to have clear vision of objects. This was a consequence of shaky  movement of eyes since births.

The team at Alakh Nayan Mandir decided to call her back for examination by Dr. Donny Suh who was as mystagmus is a complicated surgery, the doctors at Alakh Nayan Mandir decided to operate upon Yogita during the forthcoming Hospital Based Program. Therefore, Yogita was called on a member 2009 for examination by voluntary faculty Dr. Donny W. Suh. After examination by Dr. Donny, it was decided to operate Yogita on 12th November 2009. She was deschanged on 13 November 2009. There was no nystagmus and so she did not have to turn her face also. Till her last visit in October 2009 the parents expecting that Yogita could ever be operated. It was glad for her to know that could not see with straight neck position earlier her teacher used to cold her that “ Recp your neck straight” but she was helpless & had to turn her face to see. While riding vcycle she used to turn face due to which her. Mother worried that might with an accident. Now this fear has gone away & the smile has come back on her face.

Kishan Lal Banjara

This is the story of the son of a poor porter (coolic) working at railway station who was suffering from squint of eyes since birth. The community to which Kishan belongs is also not very developed one. As such, these people are not educated about their health problems. This child visited Alakh Nayan Mandir for the first time in 2003 when he was 6 years old. He was having complaint of deviated eye balls in addition to redness in eyes. On examination of his eyes, it was found that he was suffering from hypermetropia. He was thus advised cyclopegic  refraction. On diagnosis it was found that this boy was having allergy and high hypermetropia.

Despite the tribal background to which Kishan belongs and financial constraints due to his over consciousness concern about his eyes ; Kishan continuously come for follow–up examinations throughout past six years. As a result of continuous monitoring, it was possible to save Kishan’s eyes.
Kishan  last visit to the hospital was on 29th October 2009. He was suffering from diplopia and was asked to revisit the hospital on 9th November 2009 during the Hospital Based Program. During the HBP,  voluntary faculty Dr. Donny  W. Suh examined Kishan and decided that Kishan must be operated for Squint Correction. So he was operated on 10th November 2009 by voluntary faculty Dr. Donny W. Suh from America.

Kishan’s life has changed because of this surgery the problem he was suffering from past many years is now a forgotten story.