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Operational Districts: Madurai,Puducherry,Chennai, Salem, Coimbatore, Tiruppur, Dindigul, Theni , Tirunelveli ,Chittoor,Thoothukkudi

Operational States: TAMIL NADU, PUDUCHERRY, TAMIL NADU, ANDHRA PRADESH, TAMIL NADU

AchieveMents: Eye Care Services Established in 1976 with eleven beds, Aravind Eye Hospital has over the past 40 years handled more than 48 million outpatient visits and performed 5.5 million surgeries. Now, each day across all its facilities, Aravind sees about 12,500 out-patient visits and performs around 1,500 surgeries. Close to 2,600 eye camps are conducted every year that take quality eye care to the rural masses. Now the Aravind Eye Care System includes 5 tertiary care centres, 6 secondary care centres, 6 outpatient eye examination clinics and 60 primary eye care centres. Education and Training Each year close to 300 ophthalmologists, 600 paramedical workers and 200 eye care management professionals receive training in various aspects of eye care. Around 8,300 candidates from 100 countries have been trained so far at Aravind. Research Research at Aravind provides evidence and evolves methods to translate existing evidence and knowledge into effective action. Currently research is happening in the four areas: Basic and translational research, Clinical research, Operations research and Product development. Altogether 119 papers have been published and 17 scholars have received Ph.D from the institute Ophthalmic Manufacturing Established in 1992, Aravind’s manufacturing arm – Aurolab – brought down the price of intraocular lenses to one – tenth of the then market price. Now, Aurolab exports its lenses to over 140 countries worldwide and has also diversified into manufacturing suture needles, pharmaceuticals, blades, equipment and so on. Consultancy and Capacity Building Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology, Aravind’s training and consulting arm, helps develop eye hospitals across the world through a structured process of consultancy and capacity building and now works with over 320 eye hospitals worldwide. Aravind Eye Banks Eye banks across the Aravind centres help reduce corneal blindness. In the last year, more than 5,852 eyes were collected and 2,613 eyes were utilized for surgery.