Ophthalmology at R.R. Healthcare is care for the eye and for vision. The complaints that bring people in are the everyday ones: an eye that is red, painful or gritty, watering or discharge, a foreign body or a splash of something at work, a child whose squint or blurred vision worries a teacher, and the change in sight that a person notices first while reading or driving at night.
Why an eye problem gets looked at early
A change in vision is easy to blame on tiredness or an old pair of glasses, and some eye disease causes no pain until it is advanced. An examination can tell the two apart, which is why the yearly eye review matters in diabetes and blood pressure, and why a vision change lasting more than a few days is worth looking at rather than waiting for a new pair of spectacles from the market. Where a procedure is the answer, it is booked through the same admission desk as every other department, explained before it is scheduled and costed before the date is fixed.
Timings Session days are not on this site yet — call the appointment desk before travelling.
Your visit, step by step
- Book as ophthalmology, and bring the spectacles or the prescription in use now — a change from that number is the first comparison the clinic makes.
- Examination of the eye with a vision check in the clinic. Where a test or imaging is required, it is arranged and the report explained at the visit.
- Treatment started there: drops or an ointment for an infection or an allergy, removal of a surface foreign body, a corrected prescription, or a review date for something that has to be watched.
- When a procedure is the answer: the procedure explained, the date booked, admission on the day, and a review after discharge to check how it healed. Ask at the first visit whether the operation is one this campus performs.
What to bring to an eye visit
- The spectacles or the last prescription, and the date it was checked — a vision change measured against a known number is easier to interpret than a fresh test alone.
- Earlier eye reports, scans or a prescription from another hospital, and the drops currently being used, with how often each is put in.
- For a red or injured eye: what went into it — dust, a chemical, a foreign body — and when. A chemical splash is measured in minutes, so say so at the desk rather than waiting in the queue.
- The list of medicines for diabetes and blood pressure, because both decide how closely the eye has to be watched.
Questions the desk gets asked
Sometimes it is exactly that, and a refraction settles it. But blurring can also be the first sign of something that needs treatment, and the examination is what separates the two. Come with the glasses you use now — the comparison with that prescription is the first thing the clinic asks for.
The interval is set by the physician and the eye clinic together, against how long the diabetes has been present and how well it is controlled. The yearly review is the usual starting point, and a change in vision in between is a reason to come earlier rather than to wait for the next date. Ask at the visit what interval applies to you.
Scheduling is done through the same admission desk as every other department: the procedure explained, the pre-anaesthetic check, a date, and a review after discharge to see how it healed. Ask at the first visit whether the operation is one this campus performs — the consultant answers that directly, and if the answer is no, says where it should be done.
Where this clinic sits in the hospital
An eye problem that is sudden or chemical is an emergency, and the 24-hour casualty door is the way in rather than the OPD queue. Long-term eye health is tied to internal medicine, because diabetes and blood pressure are the two conditions most often reviewed alongside it, and a child with a squint or a vision problem is seen alongside paediatrics. Any operation runs off the hospital’s modular theatres with critical care on the same campus.
Sudden loss of vision in one eye, a curtain or shadow across the vision, a chemical splash or a penetrating injury, severe eye pain with a red eye and vomiting, or a foreign body that cannot be washed out: casualty immediately.