Every week, patients walk into Global Eye Hospital holding an Ayushman Bharat card and the same question: “Doctor, kinni treatment is scheme de under free hai?” It’s a fair question — and a confusing one, because Punjab actually runs two overlapping government health-cover systems, and the answer changes depending on which eye problem you have….
Some where in your fifties or sixties, the newspaper starts asking for better light than it used to. Colours look a shade duller than you remember. Headlights on the highway seem to scatter more than they should at night. For most people, this turns out to be cataract — Safed Motia, as it is known…
Advocate Ramanpreet Kaur has spent eleven years at the Patiala district courts, and her instinct for a claim that doesn’t quite hold up is close to automatic by now. So when she started researching laser eye surgery earlier this year, she did what she does with any brief: she pulled every source she could find,…
A family in a colony off Rajpura Road has spent weeks planning an outdoor Haldi function for late October — marigold decor, an open lawn, photographs booked for golden hour. Three days before the event, the bride’s mother notices her own eyes watering through the evening, gritty by the time the lights come on. She…
At the National Institute of Sports campus in Moti Bagh Patiala, a shooting coach in his early fifties has spent three decades teaching India’s junior shooters how to hold perfectly still. His own aim, ironically, was never the problem. What started slipping was something else entirely: the scoresheet clipped to his own practice board. He…
Consider a shopkeeper in his mid-fifties near Rajpura, on the outskirts of Patiala, who has lived with type 2 diabetes for close to nine years. By any reasonable standard, he is a careful patient. His HbA1c is checked on schedule. His feet are examined at every diabetes review. Ask him, though, when he last sat…
Simran had worn spectacles since she was eleven.Growing up in Sangrur, that never felt like a problem — until her twenties, when it started showing up in small, specific ways. Fogged lenses walking out of an air-conditioned bus in June. A badminton match at the community hall she sat out because her glasses kept sliding.Contact…
For those of us whose vision depends heavily on glasses or contact lenses, the idea of waking up to clear vision without spectacles is the biggest reason to consider LASIK eye surgery. Over the last decade, the refractive surgery technology ecosystem has advanced significantly, thus making laser vision correction quicker, safer, easier, and with better…
Besides shaking your confidence, dark circles under the eyes can make you look tired, aged, and worn out. While there can be several causes for dark circles under the Eye, like genetics, ageing, or underlying health issues, specific home tips can help minimize their prominence. By adopting this simple advisory into your routine, you can…
