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Blindness Problem in India

1992 20 million blind people all over the World 12 million in India -- 95% due to cataract related 2000 18.7 million blind people -- 9.7 million blindness cases related to Cataract- related 2010-2020 24.1 million by 2010 31.6 million by 2020

Aravind Eye Hospital


Founded by Dr. G. Venkataswamy in 1976.
20 bed hospital and 3 doctors 70 beds in 1978 250 beds in 1981 In 1992, 240 hospital staff, 30 doctors, 120 nurses, 60 admin

personnel 30 others.

Features of Service Operations


Building volume through community outreach

--Hence realizing economies of scale Human resources ad training --Most of the doctors and nurses and other personal are trained from scratch internally Technology development --Lenses and instruments to operate --Aurolab for lenses and medication Exporting the eye care model --231 hospitals work on its model (188 in India and 43 elsewhere)

Success/Failure
Tamil nadu census 2001

--370,031 cataract surgeries were done in 2001-2002 --Government Hospitals -7.17% --Eye Camps -10.16% --Private clinics -7.86% --Nonprofit organization -74.82% Figures for other states --Andhra Pradesh (79.7%) --Orissa (79.3%) --Maharashtra (71.5%)

Problems in generalization
Obtaining appropriate technology at LOW cost
Achieving economies Patient education problems

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