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Pakistan is a male dominated society where women have the last call on family resources. Their health care needs have lesser priority and as 2/3rd of the population lives around the poverty line there is never any money to get them treated. Women are the anchor of the family.
LRBT is committed to creating a better Pakistan by preventing the suffering caused by blindness and other eye ailments. To this end it will provide state of the art comprehensive free eye care in keeping with its tradition of excellence, efficiency and compassion for all.
All treatment at LRBT is totally free; so that no man, woman or child becomes blind just because they cannot afford the treatment. Appropriate state-of-theart treatment. Charity should not mean second-rate treatment No discrimination on the basis of language,…
Our visionary founders had envisaged a network of free eye hospitals across the length and breadth of Pakistan. They wanted that no Pakistani should be more than 200 kilometres from an LRBT hospital or clinic across the country. LRBT’s network of 15 hospitals…
We reached the 13 millionth patient landmark in May 2007 21 1/2 years from the day we embarked on our mission to eradicate curable blindness in our country. Not even in our wildest dreams did we think that we could have achieved so much in such a short space of time.
L R B T has entered the third decade of its existence. It all began when Graham Layton and Zaka Rahmatulla having re t i red from their highly successful business careers decided to give back to the country, which had been so good to them, something of substance…