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Annual Report (2008-2009) 213 066 Centres of Annual Activity Report Excellence 105 994 Tertiary L V Prasad Eye Institute Kallam Anji Reddy Campus Centres L V Prasad Marg, Banjara Hills Hyderabad 500 034, India Tel: 91 40 3061 2345 Fax: 91 40 2354 8271 e-mail: [email protected] 225 712 Excellence • Equity • Efficiency Excellence Service Centres L V Prasad Eye Institute Patia, Bhubaneswar 751 024 Orissa, India Tel: 91 0674 3989 2020 Fax: 91 0674 3987 130 e-mail: [email protected] L V Prasad Eye Institute 90 877 A pyramid of eye Visioncare reaching all Centres in need L V Prasad Eye Institute G M R Varalakshmi Campus Door No: 11-113/1, Hanumanthawaka Junction Visakhapatnam 530 040, Andhra Pradesh, India Tel: 91 0891 3989 2020 1 293 071 Fax: 91 0891 398 4444 e-mail: [email protected] Community Care LV_AR_CV.indd 1 6/15/2009 12:03:54 PM 6/15/2009 12:04:05 PM Screening and awareness programs, Monitoring eye Outpatient and surgical services, Comprehensive eye care services, refraction and dispensing spectacles health of the comm- Centre of Excellence – superspecialty care, training and research community screening 50,000 population unity 5000 popula- training of trainers and specialists, 5,000,000 population 500,000 population (20-25 villages) tion (2-3 villages) public health, research and advocacy LV_AR_CV.indd 2 L V Prasad Eye Institute Committed to excellence and equity in eye care Annual Activity Report April 2008 – March 2009 Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness L V Prasad Eye Institute is a not-for-profit charitable organization governed by two trusts, Hyderabad Eye Institute & Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation. LV_AR_InsidePgs.indd 1 6/15/2009 12:17:42 PM AnnuAL ActIVIty REPoRt | 2008-2009 tHE yEAR In REVIEW PAtIEnt cARE EyE BAnKInG coMMunIty EyE HEALtH EDucAtIon EyE RESEARcH ouR SuPPoRt The year at a glance the LVPEI pyramid of service delivery touches all levels of society, from the remote rural village to the busy urban centre. From primary eye care to advanced tertiary or quaternary centres, we have been able to provide eye care services to thousands of people, when they need it, where they need it, without compromising on quality. this year, we have been able to reach 1,928,720 adults and children through these various levels of care – 1,293,071 through our community programs and 635,649 through our primary, secondary and tertiary care facilities. our circle of impact on people’s life and sight continues to grow. Reaching the underserved – community eye health Total Villages surveyed 695 Population covered by door to door surveys 1,249,467 Community screening programs 329 Population screened 102,635 Schools screened 444 Children screened 43,604 Total adults served 1,249,467 Total children screened 43,604 (through our community programs) Community programs are conducted entirely free of cost to the beneficiaries Eradicating blindness & visual impairment and referrals Non-paying Primary eye care services* Vision centres (2.5-2.75 million population) 55 * Outpatient visits 90,877 *4 Vision Centres opened during March 27-31, 2009 Secondary eye care Service centres (10-17 million population) 17 Outpatient visits 225,712 98,459 Surgeries performed 26,364 17,991 Completing the circle – tertiary eye care Bhubaneswar Visakhapatnam Outpatient visits 57,382 48,612 105,994 25,299 Surgeries performed 5565 5038 10,603 4338 Advanced tertiary (quaternary) care – Hyderabad Outpatient visits 213,066 64,962 Surgeries performed 27,924 11,731 Total outpatient visits 635,649 Total surgeries 64,891 (at our primary, secondary and tertiary facilities) * Services provided entirely free of cost 2 Excellence | Equity LV_AR_InsidePgs.indd 2 6/15/2009 12:17:42 PM AnnuAL ActIVIty REPoRt | 2008-2009 tHE yEAR In REVIEW PAtIEnt cARE EyE BAnKInG coMMunIty EyE HEALtH EDucAtIon EyE RESEARcH ouR SuPPoRt #Providing a better quality of life – rehabilitation Vision rehabilitation centres 3 Sight enhancement client visits (low vision) 4185 Vision rehabilitation client visits 7209 •Facilitating the Gift of Sight – eye banking Hyderabad Bhubaneswar Visakhapatnam Total Corneas harvested 2959 83 250 3292 #Enhancing skills for quality eye care – continuing education Ophthalmologists 176 Other eye care professionals 466 Participants in cME and other programs 1497 #Pushing the frontiers in eye care – research Presentations – International 205 – national 263 Publications 63 Honors and awards 47 # numbers reflect activities across the LVPEI network • Includes community eye banks on our campuses | Efficiency 3 LV_AR_InsidePgs.indd 3 6/15/2009 12:17:42 PM AnnuAL ActIVIty REPoRt | 2008-2009 tHE yEAR In REVIEW PAtIEnt cARE EyE BAnKInG coMMunIty EyE HEALtH EDucAtIon EyE RESEARcH ouR SuPPoRt L V Prasad Eye Institute, Kallam Anji Reddy campus, Hyderabad Director & Dr Kallam Anji Reddy Jasti V Ramanamma Children’s Meera & L B Deshpande Centre Distinguished Chair of Ophthalmology Eye Care Centre for Sight Enhancement & G chandra Sekhar Anil K Mandal Dr PRK Prasad Centre for Rehabilitation Santosh G Honavar of Blind & Visually Impaired Clinical Services Centres Subhadra Jalali Vijaya K Gothwal Cornea & Anterior Segment Ramesh Kekunnaya Beula Christy Virender S Sangwan Pravin V Krishna Hemalatha Arunachalam Prashant Garg Ramesh Murthy Deepak K Bagga Pravin V Krishna Padmaja Kumari Rani Rituparna Ghoshal R Muraleedhara B Padhmavathi Somasheila Murthy Comprehensive Ophthalmology Varsha Rathi Rohit Khanna Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre Rishi Swarup Rupesh V Agarwal Director and Distinguished Chair of Eye Mukesh taneja Aesthetic Facial Plastic Surgery Research D Balasubramanian Bausch & Lomb Contact Lens Centre Milind N Naik Varsha Rathi niteen Dhepe Jhaveri Microbiology Centre P Ruby Kala General Optometry Savitri Sharma Das M Vinod Kumar M Srinivas Suma nalamada Preeji Shyamsunder chandra Sekhar Azad G Ashok Kumar Reddy t Shyamsunder J Ganesh Babu D Srikanth Saroja A Rao Immunology Laboratory Shaik Bajibhi Savitri Sharma Das Laser Refractive Surgery Centre tamal chakraborty Suma nalamada Pravin V Krishna Priyangshu chandra G Ashok Kumar Reddy Prashant Garg Debarun Dutta Somasheila Murthy Waseem Fatima Kallam Anji Reddy Molecular Genetics Varsha Rathi tanima Ghosh Laboratory yaswant Goud Chitra Kannabiran VST Centre for Glaucoma Care P Haresh Subhabrata chakrabarti G Chandra Sekhar P A Janitha Inderjeet Kaur BL Harsha S Vijay Kiran Ophthalmic Pathology Anil K Mandal Hari Krishna Sirisha Senthil Geeta K Vemuganti Anjul Kumar Gorakh Parulkar Smt Kanuri Santhamma Retina y Vijay Kumar Vitreous Centre M Vinod Kumar Sudhakar & Sreekanth Ravi Stem Cell Subhadra Jalali A uday Kumar Biology Laboratory Ajit B Majji Josef Mollah Geeta K Vemuganti Annie Mathai Winston D Prakash Indumathi Mariappan Raja narayanan Lavanya Rekha Virender S Sangwan Satabdi Sarkar Padmaja Kumari Rani Education Centre V Sumant Rajeev K Reddy Director & Dr G Chandra Sekhar K Swathi Distinguished Chair of Education Uveitis & Ocular Immunology M uma Prashant Garg Virender S Sangwan P Veerendranath Rupesh V Agarwal LVP-Zeiss International Academy of Internal Medicine Annie Mathai Advanced Ophthalmic Education Archana Bhargava Somasheila Murthy Srivalli Kaza Raja narayanan Fazal Hussain Bausch & Lomb School of Optometry Rajeev K Reddy Anesthesia Services coen GA de Jong Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbit, C Jagadishwar Ocular Oncology and Ocular Prosthesis PG Koshy International Centre for Advancement of Santosh G Honavar MS Prasad Rural Eye care, Kismatpur campus Ramesh Murthy S Ravinder Rohit Khanna Milind n naik cVM Reddy Sayed Imtiaz Ahmed Deepa Raizada P Sreedhar S Bhattacharya Kuldeep Raizada P Sriramulu S Sheela Devi Vijay Anand P Reddy S Krishnaiah Ramayamma International Giridhar Pyda Strabismus/Neuro-ophthalmology Eye Bank V Rajashekar Ramesh Kekunnaya Usha Gopinathan Gullapalli n Rao Ramesh Murthy Prashant Garg M Srinivas Kovai Vilas Jachin David Williams Heads of Services in italics, other names alphabetically 4 Excellence | Equity LV_AR_InsidePgs.indd 4 6/15/2009 12:17:42 PM AnnuAL ActIVIty REPoRt | 2008-2009 tHE yEAR In REVIEW PAtIEnt cARE EyE BAnKInG coMMunIty EyE HEALtH EDucAtIon EyE RESEARcH ouR SuPPoRt L V Prasad Eye Institute L V Prasad Eye Institute Bhubaneswar GMR Varalakshmi campus, Director Visakhapatnam taraprasad Das Director LVPEI Network Management Cornea & Anterior Segment Merle Fernandes Usha Gopinathan Sujata Das Cornea & Anterior Segment P Sreedevi Srikant K Sahu Merle Fernandes Core Support Glaucoma Meena Lakshmipathy Manosh Bose, Human Resources Sanghamitra Dash Glaucoma Haragopala Krishna K, Finance Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbit & P V K S Varma usha Raman, communications Oncology Retina Vitreous Ghanshyam Singh, opticals & Suryasnata Rath Avinash Pathengay opticianry M Shoba, Audio-Visual Retina & Vitreous A Srinivas G Surendra, technology Soumyava Basu Contact Lens & Refractive Surgery SBn chary, Photography taraprasad Das Merle Fernandes Sam Balasundaram, Donor Relations tapas R Padhi Rekha Gunturu Miriam Hyman Children’s Eye Care Meena Lakshmipathy Centre Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Orbit & Ocular Siddharth Kesarwani Oncology Sanghamitra Dash Roshmi Gupta Reema Helen tapas R Padhi Uveitis Suryasnata Rath Avinash Pathengay Contact Lens & Refractive Surgery Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Sujata Das Virender Sachdeva Souvik Bhattacharya Neuro-ophthalmology Souvik Mandal Virender Sachdeva Srikant K Sahu Avinash Pathengay Mukesh K Singh Optometry NTPC Centre for Diabetic Eye Disease P Anand Taraprasad Das Rekha Gunturu Soumyava Basu M yugraj tapas R Padhi Nimmagadda Prasad
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