Eye Hospital for 10 Million Poor in Karnataka

We thank you for your kind contribution for making the possibilities of working together on the Rural Eye Care Hospital plan of Project Vision.  

Our objective is to provide eye care for the people beyond Bangalore since the city has sufficient facilities for the same. We have based ourselves in place 100 kilometers away from Bangalore, in a remote area which also is the middle of Tumkur and Chikkaballapur districts. It is connected well and thus accessible. 

Our plan is to set up a base eye care facility which can be a hub for various programs that could be taken to different remote places of these two districts through camp approach. 

India has one third of world’s blind population - 15 million people. About 60% of the total population requires eye care facility as some time of life. This project's objective is to provide eye care facilities for the 10.5 million people living in the peripheries of Bangalore. Through a hospital and an outreach mobile unit, we plan to provide free eye care facilities to about 90,000 in three years.

We have obtained the permission from the Panchayat (local body) for the construction of the building. 

The hospital is conceived as a Sustainable venture. 50% of all population requires eye care services at some point of life. Thus, an eye hospital is a need for the community. While we will make the hospital financially accessible to the poor and needy, we will also charge the patients who are able to pay so that the system can be sustained. Thus, in three years’ time, the hospital would become self-sustainable.

Let Everyone See.

Links:

• Short Film Festival on Eye Donation
• A Movement on Eye Donation