Improving the Follow up Rate for Pediatric Patients

In this group after the children have been examined, treatment plan and follow up schedule been advised by a pediatric ophthalmologist, parents/guardians along with the child will receive counseling from a trained counselor as per the set counseling protocol in every follow-up visits and will also be provided with the disease-specific information leaflets as an additional information material before the child is discharged from the department.

In this group after the children have been examined, treatment plan, and the follow-up schedule been advised, they will be discharged from the department but later they will receive reminders through short messaging text (SMS) and phone calls as per the set protocol.