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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