Founded in the 1970s in India to eliminate needless blindness, Aravind Eye Care has grown to 4,000 beds in seven hospitals — and its surgeons are among the most efficient in the world. The ...

Originally broadcast July 3,2009. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Aravind is the world’s largest eye care center, a one-stop shop that even makes many of the lenses and instruments used by its surgeons. It ...

“We are going from village to village to provide eye care to the unreached,” says Aravind’s chairman, Dr. P. Namperumalsamy. Aravind won the 2008 Gates Award for Global Health.

FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Aravind is the world’s largest eye care center, ... Dr. ARAVIND: Registration takes about 5 minutes, vision test about 10 minutes, refraction check about 10 minutes.

Dr Aravind Srinivasan, director-Projects, Aravind Eye Care System, said, “While the industry is developing at a rapid rate, it is equally important to transfer skills matching the same pace.

Cheap eye care for the needy in South India. Subscribe To Newsletters. Aravind Eye Care's Vision for India. ... Aravind's doctors perform 2,000 surgeries a year versus the national average of 400.

This was in the late 70s till she met Dr.G.Venkataswamy, the founder of Aravind Eye Hospitals. Dr.V – as he was known to most – was unusual in many ways and left an impression on most of whom ...

Dr Aravind Srinivasan, director-Projects, Aravind Eye Care System, said, “While the industry is developing at a rapid rate, it is equally important to transfer skills matching the same pace.

Cheap eye care for the needy in South India. ... To ensure equity, each of the 329 eye doctors working at Aravind are rotated between the free and paying wings of the hospital.