*Anant Bajaj Retina Institute, L V Prasad Eye Institute (Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus), Bhubaneswar, India;

†Anant Bajaj Retina Institute, L V Prasad Eye Institute (Kallam Anji Reddy Campus), Hyderabad, India;

‡Department of Ophthalmology, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, India;

§Department of Ophthalmology, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, India;

¶Department of Community Medicine, Dharanidhar Medical College Hospital, Keonjhar, India; and

**Department of Paediatrics, Capital Hospital, Bhubaneswar, India.

Reprint requests: Tapas Ranjan Padhi, MS, Vitreoretinal Services, Anant Bajaj Retina Institute, L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar 751024, India; e-mail [email protected]

Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, Hyderabad, India. Although not directly related to this project, the institute's ROP program as a whole has been supported by Cognizant foundation, Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust, London; Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, London; Public Health Foundation of India, Rashtriya Bal Swasthya Karyakram (RBSK), India; Dalmia Holdings, New Delhi at different points of time.

Presented as a free paper at the Annual meet, Indian ROP society, Surat, India, July 21 to 22, 2023. Presented as a poster at the 31st Annual Conference, Vitreoretinal Society of India, Nagpur, India, December 2–4, 2022.

None of the authors has any financial/conflicting interests to disclose.