One person goes blind every five second, a child loses vision every minute and an estimated seven million people become visually handicapped each year in the world according to the world health organization.

Nearly 90 per cent of the world’s blind people live in developing countries. Nearly half of the global burden of blindness is from India (Nine million approximately)

Hence blindness is the major health problem of India.80% of the blindness is avoidable which is mainly because of cataract. Cataract is treatable and normal vision can be restored by surgery.

Lions throughout the world are renowned to work for the prevention of convertible blindness and it is one of their major programme. Keeping this in view, Lions Club of Cuttack established Melvin Jones Lions Eye Hospital at Khalasi Lane, Buxi Bazar Cuttack to bring to the people of Orissa, the basic eye care services as well as necessary surgical treatment.