Aravind Eye Hospital. July 2, 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 ...

Aravind Eye Hospital plans to improve ophthalmic care in low-income neighbourhoods, and corporation hospitals. Addressing a press conference on the launch of the first super speciality eye care ...

But it began modestly in 1976 with an 11-bed hospital. Aravind Eye Care System now has 4,000 beds in seven hospitals, most in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Aravind Eye Hospital, founded by Dr Venkataswamy as an 11-bed facility operating from a rented house in 1976, has now grown to accommodate 320 paying patients and 770 free patients.

Perhaps it would be instructive for the candidates to study the model of an eye hospital in southern India that I recently visited. The public health care system in India, […] Skip to content ...

“Aravind Hospital, founded in 1976 in Madurai, does 45 per cent of eye surgeries in the State, out of which 50 per cent is done free of cost or at highly subsidised rates,” said P ...

The hospital’s been working on an automated diabetic retinopathy screening since 2003, but according to Dr. R. Kim, chief medical officer and chief of retina services, Google’s AI-driven ...

MADURAI, India — The Aravind Eye Hospital will treat anyone who comes through the door, with or without money. Each day, more than 2,000 people arrive from across India and sometimes other parts ...

6 things that made Dr. Venkataswamy's Aravind Eye Care Hospital one of the best social enterprises globally. Alessio Pieroni 63 Stories. Wednesday January 01, 2014, 5 min Read. FOLLOW US.

From an 11-bed hospital in Madurai started by Dr G. Venkataswamy (better known as ‘Dr V’), the late founder-Chairman of Aravind Eye Hospital, the eye-care institution is now setting up its ...