Mission for Vision

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Pammal

The hospital was established in 1984 for the prevention, control, treatment & relief of human disease - rendering free, subsidized & charitable service to the poor, needy, distressed / disabled regardless of their caste, creed religion, or socio-economic status, especially in the rural areas.

Our objectives

Reaches out to those who are in need
Helps you to help those in need of eyesight
Who don’t have near and dear to take care
Who can’t make it to a hospital
Offers more than sight – Total care with love
A rural outreach programme on eye care with a thrust on villages in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur & Chittoor (AP) districts

Sankara Eye Hospital has

Highly trained and committed human resource
Two well equipped air-conditioned operation theatres
95,654 cataract surgeries with IOL have been performed so far.

As of 2003, the hospital had 91 beds catering to 12,000 surgeries. The bed strength has been raised now to 169 beds with a targeted surgical workload of 18,000 per annum.

Vanavil Rainbow : A School eye screening programme

This joint programme organized by Rotary Club of Madras Fort, RI Dist 3230, with Sankara Eye Hospital, Pammal & Sight Savers International, aims

To screen a lakh of school children in the age group of 10-17 years for refractive errors, every year.
Train teacher volunteers to identify children with eye problems.
Examine children with suspected refractive errors
Provide children from poor families with free glass / surgery

Rotary organizes printing of data sheets, training materials, arranging distribution of spectacles, hospitality, etc.

Sankara imparts training to the teacher-volunteers, refracts children needing spectacles, transports staff & provides free surgery to the children affected with traumatic / congenital cataract.

Outcome

Large number of undetected visual defects amongst the school children has been identified and redressed.

Mass coverage of student population made possible

Combined effort of the District Administration, Teaching staff and Voluntary agencies produced commendable success.

Parent – Doctor interaction helped in creating an awareness of eye problems in children

Sankara Eye Hospital,
Hospital Complex,
Sri Sankara Nagar,
Pammal,
Chennai- 600 075
Tel : +91- (044) 22483750

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