 Hi I am Dr. Padmana Brau. I head the Department of Ophthalmology here in Manipal Hospital's outpatient department and I have been in the field of ophthalmology for 35 years and we provide outpatient services here and I have one more assistant by name Dr. Shobha who comes and spends time here when I am not here and she is also a senior consultant who is specialized in glaucoma and I do general ophthalmology. So we have a very comprehensive general ophthalmic care unit here and we do corporate health checkups and apart from routine eye testing, screening and all that and also I specialize in PECO and refractive surgery and I find this environment very very homely and very friendly to the patients and my patients are very happy with the services provided here. I consult here between 9 and 11 o'clock in the morning and also between 5 and 7 in the evening on all weekdays and on Saturdays only between 9 and 12 o'clock. We prefer scheduling patients for appointment and it's better if somebody takes an appointment and comes. Of course we try to accommodate work in patients but there may be some delay in seeing them and it's better that one takes an appointment and comes here and I would advise all diabetic patients to have their eyes examined once in a year to screen for any possibility of diabetic retinopathy. It's a very very important message that I would like to give to all my diabetic patients and Bangalore being the diabetic capital of India. We have a lot of diabetic patients here and it's extremely important that we take this precaution. All diabetic patients should undergo annual eye examination. It's very very important to prevent certain of the complications because in diabetic eye disease there will not be any symptoms. Patients will not experience any difficulty. Many times people come with a sudden onset of blindness which is usually too late to treat diabetes. So the longer we live with diabetes the greater are the chances of developing diabetic retinal disease, diabetic ocular complications. So it is very important that we screen all the diabetic patients once in a year at least so that we pick up these changes much before they experience any problem on account of it and undertake some preventive treatment like laser photo coagulation or intraocular avastin injections or whatever it is to prevent certain of the many of the complications. So one can lead a normal life with a useful vision in spite of being diabetic provided they take this precaution and take care. So that is my message to all diabetic patients who would like to and also the general public should have their eyes examined once in a couple of years. Children also should undergo eye screening just before they get into the first standard that is by five years of age this is called pre-school survey. Many of the problems that occur in children can be detected at this early stage and prevented from going to the stage of complications. Many a times they can develop squint and blunting of vision in one eye, amblyopia and many other problems which can be prevented. So that's a very important message that I would like to give.