Annual Report (2016-2017)
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L V Prasad Eye Institute y c n ei c iff E y ti u q E e c n e l l e c x E Activity Report 2016 - 2017 Copyright © 2017 / All rights reserved Editors: Dr Sreedevi Yadavalli, Neha Hassija Design: Y Yedukondalu, N Kishore Kumar and N Ramgopal Assistance: Vamshi Inaganti, Sharmila, Lakshmi Sakuntala, B Satish and Ch Ravinder Photography: SBN Chary and Naresh Gattu; Dr Srinivas Marmamula; and LVPEI Archives Donor Relations: Sam J Balasundaram and Mahaveer Jain Printers: Pragati Offset Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad Foreword Into the Future The past year (April 2016-March 2017) can On the 'Primary Eye Care' front, we have be distinctly characterized into a movement expanded to more geographic territories, to the future with the implementation have begun forging new partnerships, of the strategic objectives of 'Institutes enhanced the technology component of Excellence (IOE)' and 'Primary Eye to maximize benefits and are training Care (PEC)' (part of our 'Next 25' goals). more professionals. These two major Together these will accelerate our journey programmes with advances made by for achieving the goal of "Universal Eye our Innovation Center and Ophthalmic Health" for the populations we serve Engineering Center, have set a new directly and help in the capacity building of direction for our Institute's future. others to achieve this goal. Our concept of In clinical care, most campuses recorded creating IOE has received positive response record volumes without losing sight from several supporters that has led to the of equity. Record numbers of corneas inauguration of some of these Institutes. harvested and transplanted, special The Tej Kohli Cornea Institute has already forms of contact lenses (scleral lenses) made a sizeable impact and initiated dispensed, children served with special partnerships with a few global institutions focus on cataract, glaucoma, retinopathy of already. Aurobindo Geriatric Eye Institute, prematurity and retinoblastoma eye cancer, Academy of Eye Care Education, Institute scores of schools screened, special clinic on of Eye Cancer, Institute of Dacryology, cortical visual impairment, focus on niche Brien Holden Institute of Optometry and areas such as dacryology, incorporating Vision Sciences, Child Sight Institute (which more visual functions in routine testing, has just received a major philanthropic addition of a "Clinic for the Unknown" to gift), Institute for Ocular Regeneration solve some puzzling clinical problems were and Institute for Vision Rehabilitation all representative of the year. have begun to explore newer frontiers. Research had an exciting and productive were initiated in about six of our secondary year with greater penetration into areas centres and the results are gratifying as they of stem cell biology genetics, visual eliminate travel costs to the economically psychophysics and imaging. Addition of disadvantaged rural families. new cGMP and cGLP facilities, adoptive Increasing adoption of technology in more optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy, areas of our work, more alliances forged newer and expanded research space, towards this end, and our technology group addition of myopia research, biosynthetic receiving several honours, has been a clear cornea and ocular tuberculosis units with indication of the potential of the reach and expanded work in infections, antibiotic coverage of the innovative products. resistance and newer ways of drug delivery contributed to this. Much of this work is This phenomenal year was a product of significantly translational with potential for the hard work and compassion of our team large scale application to counter several and ever increasing support from generous forms of ocular morbidity and dysfunction. individuals and organizations. The number as well as the size of contributions have Equally exciting is the migration of increased, reflecting the trust we enjoy. some aspects of tertiary care such as This certainly adds to our burden of corneal transplantation, laser therapy, responsibility to do more and better. We management of more complex glaucomas, are cognizant of this and ready to face the children's care and plastic surgery - bringing challenges with greater vigour as we move them closer to the "doorstep" of people "Into the Future". who need them the most. These services Gullapalli N Rao Chair, Board of Trustees c 1 Network Map .................................................................. 04 2 Year at a Glance .............................................................. 06 o 3 30 Years of Excellence .................................................... 07 n 4 Highlights of the Year ...................................................... 09 t 5 Linkages .......................................................................... 10 e 6 Awards & Honours .......................................................... 12 7 Campus News ................................................................. 16 n 8 Patient Care ..................................................................... 24 t 9 Vision Rehabilitation ....................................................... 30 s 10 Eye Banking .................................................................... 34 11 Rural and Community Eye Health ................................... 38 12 Education ........................................................................ 44 13 Research ......................................................................... 48 14 Innovation ...................................................................... 52 16 Donor Stories .................................................................. 56 17 List of Board Members ..................................................... 64 The LVPEI Eye Care Network Bhubaneswar Kumaram Bheem Asifabad Bhadradri Kothagudem Visakhapatnam Hyderabad Vijayawada KARNATAKA 4 As of March 2017 1 Centre of Excellence Serves 50 mn population 3 Tertiary Centres Each serves 5 mn population 16 Secondary Eye Care Centres* 9 Partner Centres Each serves 500,000 – 1 mn population 148 Primary Eye Care Centres** Each serves 50,000 population Vision Health Guardians Serves 5,000 population * Secondary Centres ** Vision Centres 5 The Year at a Glance (April 2016 to March 2017) Research 260 Publica�ons 243 Presenta�ons Eye Bank 9494 donor 148 Awards & 2,552,444 corneas harvested Honours people served 5325 corneal transplants* Vision Educa�on Rehabilita�on 530 trained 12,622 visually 2381 people impaired clients par�cipated in served *CMEs and other programs *Con�nuing Medical Educa�on *3011 corneal transplants within the LVPEI network and 2314 outside the LVPEI network For more details, refer page no 25 30 Years of Excellence (1987 to March 2017) Served over 23.8 million people 50%+ services provided free of cost, regardless of complexity 11.68 million outpa�ents treated 424 SLET* procedures villages provided with direct 1.22 million surgeries performed 6000 services through secondary and primary care 0.16 million rehabilitated 170 centres 69,084 donor corneas harvested 19,497 Indian and foreign eye care professionals trained 34,096 donor corneas transplanted 2023 research papers published 1028 stem cell based procedures 43 PhDs awarded 7 *SLET - Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation First ever complex ophthalmic plastic surgery performed at Highlights of the Year Allahadini Mishra Zebra-Fish Impact Created - 30 Years secondary centre in Mudhole, Research Facility inaugurated Telangana at MTC campus Visakhapatnam campus gets NABH accreditation National LVPEI Bhubaneswar named as Mithu Tulsi Helped upgrade eye care centres in 18 states in India Chanrai (MTC) campus Indian Oil Centre for Played a key role in forming the Eye Bank Association of India and in developing Rural Eye Health *Eye donation the manual for Indian Eye Banking Medical Standards inaugurated at fortnight observed New world record Bhubaneswar campus set - 2043 corneal Publication of the 'Indian Journal of Ophthalmology' for 12 years Partial corneal transplant surgery DSEK performed transplants performed Established the Indian Eye Research Group, now a chapter of Association for at secondary centre in in a single year Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Nellore, AP Helped develop and standardise medical education curricula Govt of India adopted LVPEI’s Vision Centre and Eye Health Pyramid models Initiated founding of VISION 2020 India April - 2016 May - 2016 June - 2016 July - 2016 August - 2016 Sept - 2016 Oct - 2016 Nov - 2016 Dec - 2016 Jan - 2017 Feb - 2017 Mar - 2017 Squint surgery International performed at secondary centre in A World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for the prevention of blindness and a pioneer in developing eye Srujana Center for Thoodukurthy health models for underserved areas of the developing world Akkineni Innovation inaugurated Manoharamma Member of Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium Corneal transplant at new facility in The Govindram Seksaria Chemotherapy surgery performed Hyderabad campus Institute of Dacryology Secretariat of the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) Unit inaugurated at secondary centre Gebauer Refractive inaugurated at Hyderabad Surgery Outpatient Service at Hyderabad in Mudhole - the Innovative surgery - International Centre for Eye Care Education campus inaugurated at Hyderabad campus first in Telangana *SLET performed at Institute for Vision campus International Association of Contact Lens Educators secondary centre in Rehabilitation inaugurated Ramayamma International Paloncha, Telangana