Affordable Eye Surgery Prevents Blindness in India

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Summary

Provides free sight-restoring treatment to poor patients in southern India. $25 pays for a session of chemotherapy for a patient with eye cancer. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

One-sixth of the world's blind live in India. Apart from cataracts, which are actively being treated, there are several other potentially blinding eye conditions that affect approximately 4 million people across the country. These diseases often require specialized attention and high-cost interventions that the poor often don’t know about and cannot afford. This project will offer free sight-restoring services to thousands in need living in southern India.

Activities

This project will provide free exams, treatment, hospitalization, outreach, and transportation services for poor patients in need of specialized eye care services.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $12,926
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $237,074
Total Funding Goal: $250,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Aravind pioneered a hugely successful model to address the problem of cataract blindness. This current project will help catalyze and create similar service delivery models for specialized eye conditions, enabling thousands more to regain sight.

Project Message

"Aravind, with its high quality specialty services and commitment to serving the poor, is now uniquely placed to take on this challenge of effectively tackling the major eye diseases beyond cataract."
- Mr. R.D. Thulasiraj, Director, Aravind’s Capacity-Building Programs

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Chitra Prasad,
Project contact
Aravind Eye Hospital
1, Anna Nagar
Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625020
India
91-452-2532653
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Aravind Eye Care System
Aravind Eye Hospital
1, Anna Nagar
Madurai, Tamil Nadu 625020
India
91-452-2532653
http://www.aravind.org

Learn more about Aravind Eye Care System and the project team.


Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Health.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 02, 2005.

Latest Update from the Field

Aravind thanks donors for joining hands to treat the underpriviliged

By Chitra Prasad - Project Leader, August 07, 2008 05:13 PM

With the help of Global giving and the genorisity of the donors we received $12,000 this year. these funds have been directed to the Ring of Hope Fund which is used mainly to treat patients suffering from life threatening eye cancers and tumors. These donations are either used for subsidized or free treatment of the under privileged people who are unable to pay. Every year Aravind treats approximately 100 new patients &150 review patients who otherwise would have been unable to access crucial medical care. These cancer patients need at least 6 chemotherapy cycles after the surgery. Hence the donations received from global giving helped us treat about 25 such patients including new and review cases.

You can also click on the link below to read the 2007 - 2008 Annual report for Aravind eye care system (AECS). The performance section of the report shows the statistics of the Surgeries performed by AECS for the Fiscal Year 2007 -2008.


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