Retinoblastoma Awareness Day

          The Retinoblastoma Clinic of the department of ophthalmology organized the Retinoblastoma Awareness Day on 12th of May 2012.  Retinoblastoma is an rare eye cancer of childhood. This is a part particiaption of the world retinoblastoma awareness which is being held world over from 13-19th May. Dr Usha Singh and her colleagues who run the retinoblastoma clinic invited retinoblastoma patients and parents to attend this awareness campaign.  

       The programme was held in the Advanced Eye Center auditorium. Prof Amod gupta inaugurated the programme with his inaugural address. He emphasized that there should be a way of diagnosing retinoblastoma before the white reflex is seen. And that eyes  of everychild  should be examined right from earlys years.  The purpose of this  as to create awareness about white relex which is the most common symptom of retinoblastoma in  children. Talks  were held in simple hindi  to explain  how white reflex looks, when can it be seen and what to do when seen by the oncology team  comprising of ophthalmologist, paediatric oncologist and radiation oncologist. This programme was attended ny Senoir  drs like Dr SC Sharma, hod radiotherapy, Dr Deepak bansal, paediatric oncologist, Dr Amit Bahl radiation oncologist , senior ophthalmologist Dr Bhajan Singh , Senior citizen Wing Cdr Pritpal Singh Sandhu, NGO members of Cancer Sahayta sahyog, all department faculty and all interested workers. Use of multimedia, simple diagrams and videos  were  used. It was stressed upon that early detection is the key to saving life and sight. In addition to that, benefits from the govt and non govt organizatins were explained to them   

          Key message was that parents should get the eyes of the children checked by an eye specialist whenever they see white reflex, sudden onset of squint or development of  large eye. Families where retinoblastoma  runs in the members should get the eyes of children checked right from birth onwards for early detection.  

          Alpana Bakshi mother of a retinoblastoma child Rijul Bakshi spoke how the family should not abandon such a child and  support the children in all times of treatment and thereafter. Such children once cured can lead a normal life and achive their full potential. Her son today who has no sight is an example of that. He is 18 yrs old now and doing computer science and  is already  an accomplished national level singer  with many  awards and medals to his credit.   

         Documentary of Rijuls career was shown to inspire the other children and parents. Distribution of gifts were given by all senior invitees to all children.  Distribution of Flyers containing key message was given to all parents  and  requested to spread the message among all family and friends. Take home message was once again repeated and parents were suggested to form  retinoblastoma support group for the poor and needy patients.

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