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Issue No: 296, March 2014

Vision Centre opens at AVHC

The Aravind Primary Eye Care Centre was inaugurated and officially opened on February 21 at the Auroville Health Centre. The new vision centre provides comprehensive eye examinations, screenings for hypertension and diabetes, First Aid for foreign body removal, and tele-consultations with the opthamologist at the Aravind Eye Hospital in Pondicherry. Patients requiring treatment for cataract and speciality eye problems are referred to the main hospital. Affordable eye glasses are also available for purchase, and the centre will be providing eye screenings in schools with the help of teachers. The Aravind Eye Care System (AECS) was founded in 1976 by Dr. G. Venkataswamy, a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, as an alternative health care model to eliminate preventable blindness. Starting with just 11 beds in a rented house in Madurai, it has grown to ten major eye hospitals in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry with over 4,000 beds, and a total of 45 Vision Centres in rural an...
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Issue No. 296, March 2014

  • Hall of Peace inaugurated
  • Goodwill, maturity and the yoga: reflections on Auroville
  • Transparent or translucent? The crystal discussions
  • Exploring Auroville International
  • The perils and promises of the International Zone
  • Living Routes closes down
  • Where audience becomes performance
  • Vision Centre opens at AVHC
  • 'Water Being': exploring aquatic body work
  • George Nakashima

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