ISLAMABAD: The Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL), in collaboration with Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital, recently held 19 eye camps in all four provinces where around 56,565 underprivileged patients were extended free of cost treatment. At the camps arranged under the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, as many as 3,168 cataract surgeries were performed, besides the provision of 18,139 spectacles and 2,125 special glasses to the patients, official sources told APP. Sharing details, they said 10 eye camps were organised in six districts including Sanghar, Ghotki, Sukkur, Khairpur, Jamshoro & Hyderabad in the recent past, while two more camps were scheduled from March 9 to 17, 2021. A total of 22,880 patients have been treated in Sindh Province. Since November 2021, the company has so far held four camps in the Karak and Kohat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and treated 15,855 patients whereas three more camps would be held by June 2022. Similarly in Punjab, three eye camps were set up in Attock, Vehari, and Rajanpur districts where 11,896 patients had been treated for various eye-related diseases. In Balochistan, two eye camps were arranged in districts Barkhan and Kohlu where the medical team treated 5,934 patients. Five more camps would be held in the province by June 2022. The medical teams at the country-wide camps conducted around 3,929 COVID-19 tests before eye treatment of the visiting patients.