Childhood blindness comprises of a number of disease conditions that occur in childhood and early adolescence. Most of the more serious disorders can be prevented or avoided.

Choithram Netralaya with support of Orbis International, which is a New York based non profit organization is working to eliminate avoidable blindness amongst children, runs a state of the art pediatric ophthalmology unit. The Pediatric Department has a child friendly environment with play area, video room and feeding rooms for mothers. Refractive errors, lazy eye, squint (crossed eyes), cataract, pediatric glaucoma, watering eye problems, retinopathy of prematurity etc are treated with latest technology and well qualified team of doctors. Further more, the department deals with squint and motility problems in adults also. All types of squint surgeries are performed by expert doctors. Different facilities available are

• Pediatric optical services to cater to the problems of refractive errors in children
• Orthoptic evaluation
• Low vision Aids
• All types of pediatric surgeries