Patient Care
Blindness kills a person every day. It takes away their sight, respect and decision making authority. Our job is not just to bring them vision. How do we get them back their dignity?
- Dr. G. Venkataswamy
Aravind Eye Hospitals made great strides in the past year, with the total out-patient visits approaching six million, a significant 34% increase from the previous year. This led to an exponential increase in the number of surgeries, injections and laser procedures. As the year drew to a close, the collective efforts of Aravind centres resulted in handling a total of 5.7 million out-patient visits and performing over 700 thousand surgeries, lasers, and injections.
Performance: Aravind Eye Hospitals (April 2022 - March 2023)
Growth in out-patient visits and surgeries since inception in 1976
March 2007 statistics includes months from January 2006 to March 2007
*From year 2007, the statistics is for the financial year, April to March
Infrastructure Developments
Aravind Eye Hospital, Dindigul moved to a new facility
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Aravind Eye Hospital, Dindigul moved to a new facility on 24th July 2022. The 46,000 sq.ft building offers comfortable patient waiting areas, investigation and examination rooms and three operating rooms.
P.S. Velusamy, Chairman, SSM Group as the chief guest, inaugurated the new building and the guest of Honour was Dr. J. Kumar, Vice-chancellor, Madurai Kamaraj University.
New facility for Aravind Eye Hospital, Tirunelveli
Aravind-Tirunelveli is undergoing a major expansion and the new facility is nearing completion in the hospital premises. It will house four general ophthalmology units, Contact Lens, four speciality clinics (Paediatric Ophthalmology, Cataract and IOL, Vision Rehabilitation, Orbit and Oculoplasty) and 17 operating rooms spread across two floors.
New clinics for specialised care
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Clinics dedicated to the care of myopia patients were opened at Aravind-Coimbatore and Madurai in collaboration with Zeiss on 27th June and 1st October 2022, respectively. These are equipped with state of the art investigation facilities and offer specialised lenses and treatments as well as counselling for lifestyle modification, to slow down the progression of myopia.
In association with BYNOCS Pvt Ltd, Aravind-Coimbatore opened an exclusive Amblyopia and Binocular Vision Clinic on October 22 to cater to older children and adults. The clinic provides treatment to improve binocular vision and stereo acuity especially for patients in whom traditional patching did not yield desired results.
Aravind sets foot in Thanjavur
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Construction of Aravind’s eighth tertiary centre has begun at Thanjavur. This will serve the population in the Cauvery delta districts. The hospital along with the staff accommodation facility will have a built-in area of 400 thousand sq.ft and is expected to open in October 2024.
A productive year for outreach eye camps
2022-2023 was a productive year for Aravind’s outreach initiatives. Complete relaxation of COVID restrictions made it possible to resume free eye camps in a full-fledged manner. All centres achieved record performance. For the very first time, cataract surgeries through camps crossed 110,000.
During the year from April 2022 - March 2023, Aravind’s outreach eye camps screened 600,755 patients. A total of 114,584 patients underwent surgery for cataract and other conditions.
Strengthening primary eye care delivery
During April 2022 – March 2023, Aravind vision centres together handled 929,098 out-patient visits, registering a 29% growth over the last year.
Aravind opened a total of seven vision centres across Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.
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Tisayanvilai, June 27
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Konganapuram, July 13
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Alangudi, August 3
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Arakandanallur, September 7
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Mudichur, December 21
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Vikravandi, March 17
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Koduvai, March 23
Support for scaling up of vision centres, beyond Aravind
Aravind’s primary eye care delivery through vision centres has become a much sought-after model towards ensuring universal coverage in eye health. It has been working with the Govt. of Bangladesh’s National Institute of Ophthalmology in setting up vision centres across the country. A total of 135 vision centres were thus established all over the country of which the latest 45 were officially inaugurated by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh on 10th January 2023.
In the last year, Aravind offered vision centre technician training to three persons from Shiva Veerakshi Eye Hospital and Laser Centre, Hosur, Karnataka.
Aravind Integrated Eye Bank Services (AIEBS)
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