Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS) is a leading national eye care, providing agency for comprehensive eye care service in the country. It was established in 1978 as a National Society for the prevention and control of blindness. Under NNJS 17 Eye Hospital and more than 60 primary Eye Care Centers are running. The main role of NNJS is to make a national strategy, supervise, monitor and ensure quality of services in eye hospitals and centers. It is responsible for overall guidance and leadership for smooth and efficient running of programme, expansion of programme nationwide, coordination with government and local authorities, instructing the hospital to conduct more activities to reach to unreached eye patients, evaluate the target and achievement, train more and more human resource, aware the civil society about preventive and curative remedies of eye care.
Eye Health Program - Rapti & Bahadurgunj
There are three eye hospitals (Rapti Eye Hospital, Chhanda (kalebabu) - Naryani Eye Hospital, Lamahi Eye Hospital) and five PECC and two referral centre under Eye Health Program - Rapti & Bahadurgunj