Patients at the Samanvaya Ashram, Bodhgaya campus, on Wednesday. At least 28,000 persons will be operated upon for cataract at the free eye camp, organised by Gujarat-based Bhansali Trust in Bodhgaya. Around 540 patients from across Bihar were admitted on Wednesday. The camp at Samanvaya Ashram, Bodhgaya, around 100m north of Mahabodhi Mahavihara, will conclude on December 2. The ashram’s chief trustee, Dwarko Bhai Sundarani, said 30 eye surgeons, five doctors, 100 paramedical staff and 450 volunteers from Gujarat will reach Bodhgaya on Thursday to render their services at the camp. The trust has been organising the camp since 1984. Patients from Gaya, Aurangabad, Jehanabad, Arwal, Nawada, Nalanda, Patna and other districts will attend the camp. The patients will be provided free medicines, lens and spectacles. An employee of Samanvaya Ashram, SK Nirala, said Bhansali Trust constructed Netra Jyoti Eye Hospital on the campus of Samanvaya Ashram at an estimated cost of Rs 42 lakh in 2011. Nirala said: “Volunteers in three groups, including two doctors in each group, visit villages in Gaya, Aurangabad, Nalanda and other districts to check patients. Those who urgently need to be operated upon are provided with a registration card.” Text by Alok Kumar, picture by Suman