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Blindness Problem in India1992

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

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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 adminpersonnel 30 others.

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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 aretrained 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 43elsewhere)

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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%)

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Problems in generalization Obtaining appropriate technology at LOW cost

 Achieving economies

Patient education problems

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