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IOLs at $ 10 while others were selling them at $ 60-$ 100. Aurolab now manufactures a little more than two million lenses annually and exports to 160 countries. About 60% of
Aurolab’s sales go to non-profit organizations. Aurolab now produces high quality IOLs, sutures, blades, pharmaceuticals and equipment at a fraction of their cost in the west, enabling Aravind and other providers to maintain quality and equity in care. Aurolab now meets over 10% of developing countries’ needs.
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program wherein doctors reach out to remote villages to conduct eye camps, some times, in association with various organizations. The organizations take care of the costs of the camp, transporting the patients to surgery and their rehabilitation while
Aravind does the surgery free of cost. Aravind started performing 5 times the number of cataract surgeries that were performed in the entire country and 16 times more than that of the entire U.S.
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The lens (IOL) implanted during cataract surgery improves visual outcomes and, thereby, quality of life. However, the high cost threatened
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fast food and sought to adapt it to the eye care system to cope with increasing the numbers of patients treated. Aravind began performing surgeries on a large scale with treatment being free or heavily subsidized for the poor cross subsidized by the paying patients. Aravind established an outreach
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Aravind focused on rotating doctors between free and paid wards, concentrating on efficiency and hygiene thus eliminating differences between the surgeries done for paid and non-paid patients. The rate of infection in
Aravind was about four per ten thousand surgeries which was significantly lower
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related blindness in India. As of 2012, Aravind has treated nearly 32 million patients and performed 4 million surgeries. The model of
Aravind Eye Care hospitals has been applauded and has become a subject for numerous case studies across the world.
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Cataracts are a major source of blindness in India, with at least 4 million cases reported every year, contributing to nearly to a quarter of the world’s blind. Cataract related blindness can be avoided by timely intervention and surgery.
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897:Government Villupuram Medical College
877:Government Rajaji Hospital in Madurai
842:Government Dharmapuri Medical College
534:"Aravind Eye Care's Vision for India"
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852:Government General Hospital, Chennai
752:"2008 Gates Award for Global Health"
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375:(1998), Rotary Aravind Eye Bank in
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1107:National Institute of Epidemiology
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477:"A Hospital Network With a Vision"
367:(1998), Aravind – IOB Eye bank in
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417:"Aravind Eye Hospital- Locations"
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1182:2015 Indian swine flu outbreak
882:Government Royapettah Hospital
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1053:St. Luke's Hospital, Nazareth
443:"About Aravind Eye Hospitals"
393:Gates Award for Global Health
355:Aravind has established four
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190:Govindappa Venkataswamy
184:is a hospital chain in
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1350:Eye hospitals in India
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1038:MIOT hospital, Chennai
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917:Madras Medical College
387:Awards and recognition
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1238:Healthcare in Chennai
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182:Aravind Eye Hospitals
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1325:Hospitals in Madurai
807:Health in Tamil Nadu
509:10 June 2014 at the
373:Indian Overseas Bank
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363:in association with
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