A Non-Governmental Organisation providing vision care services organised an eye screening camp for the fishing community here Friday.
Around 400 people were screened at suburban Neelankarai which has a significant population of fishermen and free spectacles were distributed to those with refractive errors.
India Vision Institute, a not-for-profit trust, focusing on promoting awareness on eye health, research, and education, said in a statement it has so far conducted over 360 such vision screening programmes.
Former Chennai Mayor and DMK leader M Subramanian and India Vision Institute CEO, Vinod Daniel participated.
Subramanian said such screening programmes provided access to eye care for the less privileged people in society.
Daniel said the institute's outreach facility has begun functioning from an urban primary health care centre at Palavakkam here.
Screening at the centre will be conducted on Mondays and Fridays from 9.30 am to 12.00 pm and an optometrist and a support person will also be available.
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