Sankara Eye Hospital
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Mission Statement
To provide high quality eye care to all segments of society through state-of-the-art services
About This Cause
Sankara Eye Hospital, Pammal, Chennai India headquartered in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) is a community eye care provider for rural Tamilnadu. Blessed and inspired by Sankaracharyas of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam, this humanitarian mission initiated in the year 1997, is today a state-of- the-art eye hospital providing high quality eye care with compassion to all the sections of society, the poor, the middle income and the rich. Our vision being eradication of preventable and curable blindness across India, we aim to provide quality eye care to all, irrespective of socio-economic, religious, linguistic and geographical backgrounds. Sankara’s unique community outreach program, Kannoli , brings quality and timely eye care to the doorsteps of rural India. With Rainbow, our paediatric outreach program, we reach to children aiming to banish eye problems in time, ensuring they have a clear and bright future. Sankara is involved in various other aspects of eye care including academics and research. Over two decades, Sankara has significantly and positively impacted the burden of preventable and curable blindness in Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh through service and policy decisions that enable us to provide accessible, equitable and affordable high quality care. The key to avoiding human suffering and loss in productivity due to blindness and visual impairment is early detection, referral and treatment of the causes of blindness. Several studies from India have reported poor utilization of existing eye care facilities and identified availability, accessibility and affordability as major barriers. Historically such challenges have been tackled through an outreach camp approach. Such an approach involves screening camps at selected locations easily accessible from a cluster of villages, identifying people with visual defects, and issuing prescriptions for spectacles where needed or referral to the base Hospital for specialized investigations and treatment and identifying those in need of cataract surgery. Those identified as needing cataract surgery are brought to the hospital where accommodation, food, pre-operative investigations, surgery, post-operative medicines and reviews are provided. The entire rural outreach lifecycle activities are delivered free of cost to the patient including the post operative reviews to assess visual outcome at the camp location. The Hospital is equipped with the most modern equipment and staffed with qualified and experienced medical and paramedical staff. It has all sub-specialties of Ophthalmology and has been extending comprehensive eye care to the needy over the past two decades. The Hospital has obtained pre-accreditation certification from NABH which is a formal recognition of our attention to patient care processes With the aim of restoring vision for more than 16,000 blind annually, the hospital performs, on an average, 60 free cataract surgeries every day. The patients are admitted one day before surgery and discharged the day after. They are reviewed at their village itself within 10 days & again after one month. They are then issued with reading glasses, wherever necessary. During the last Eighteen years, the hospital has performed more than 2,70,000 cataract surgeries of which over 80% were free surgeries to the rural poor, covering a population of more than TEN Million. While the service is delivered free to the patient, considering the quality requirements and the level of care provided, the cost per Cataract surgery works up to around Rs 4200. In March 2020, the COVID 19 pandemic caused a close down of the Hospital for almost three months but in spite of almost no revenues, the Hospital did not lay off any staff or Doctor. The Hospital restarted operations with adequate safeguards for patients as well as our staff through increased investment in sanitation and hygiene, social distancing and protocol changes