ACTIVITY REPORT 2014–2015 L V Prasad Eye Institute Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved EDITORS: Dr Sreedevi Yadavalli, Neha Hassija DESIGN: Y Yedukondalu, N Kishore Kumar ASSISTANCE: V Srinivasa Raju, Vamshi Inaganti, N Jayalaxmi and Lakshmi Sakuntala PHOTOGRAPHY: SBN Chary and Sandeep Roy; LVPEI Archives DONOR RELATIONS: Sam J Balasundaram PRINTERS: Sai Krishna Art Printers, Balkampet, Hyderabad Department of Communications Level 4 L V Prasad Eye Institute Kallam Anji Reddy Campus L V Prasad Marg, Banjara Hills Hyderabad - 500034, India Ph: +91 40 30612445, +91 40 30612446 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Contents The LVPEI Network ............................................................ 02 The Year at a Glance ......................................................... 04 Our Team .......................................................................... 06 Boards of Management ...................................................... 08 Foreword ........................................................................... 09 Awards and Honours ......................................................... 10 Breaking New Ground ....................................................... 14 Network News ................................................................... 15 Campus News .................................................................... 17 Kallam Anji Reddy Campus, Hyderabad Bhubaneswar Campus GMR Varalakshmi Campus, Visakhapatnam Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus, Vijayawada Patient Care Services .......................................................... 35 Vision Rehabilitation .......................................................... 40 Eye Banking ....................................................................... 47 Product Development ........................................................ 52 Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care ....................................... 54 Academy of Eye Care Education ......................................... 68 Prof Brien Holden Eye Research Centre ............................. 79 Srujana Centre for Innovation ............................................ 108 Alumni News .................................................................... 112 Our Support ...................................................................... 113 Abbreviations Used KAR - Kallam Anji Reddy Campus RIEB - Ramayamma International Eye Bank GMRV - GMR Varalakshmi Campus GPR-ICARE - Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International KVC - Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye care AP - Andhra Pradesh THE LVPEI NETWORK Centre of Excellence Kallam Anji Reddy Campus Hyderabad, Telangana Tertiary Care Centres Patia, Bhubaneswar GMR Varalakshmi Campus Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus Odisha Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh Sundargarh Jharsuguda Mayurbhanj Deogarh Keonjhar Bargarh Sambalpur Balasore Bhadrak Subarnapur Angul Dhenkanal Jajpur Balangir Baudh ODISHA Cuttack Kendrapara Naupada Nayagarh Jagatsinghpur Kandhamal Bhubaneswar Khurda Kalahandi Puri Ganjam Rayagada Nabarangpur Gajapati Koraput TELANGANA Malkangiri Bidar Visakhapatnam Centre of Excellence (1) Hyderabad Gulbarga Tertiary Care Centres (3) Bijapur Yadgir Vijayawada Secondary Care Service Centres (13) Bagalkot Belgaum Raichur Partner Centres (9) Koppal Dharwad Gadag ANDHRA Primary Care Service Centres (116) Uttara PRADESH Kannada KARNATAKA Haveri Davanagere Chitradurga Shimoga Chikballapur Udupi Chikmagalur Tumkur Bangalore Rural Hassan Kolar Dakshina Bangalore Kannada Mandya Ramanagara Kodagu Mysore Chamrajanagar KAR Campus LVPEI Bhubaneswar Paramahansa Yogananda Urban Vision Centres City Centre at Banra Netralaya, Rajahmundry Ramnagar Ramakrishna Math Hyderabad Ravulapalem Kismathpur (As of 31 March 2015) Vision Centres linked to Tertiary & Secondary Centres Bhosle Gopal Rao Seshanna Chennawar Kuchakulla Venkata Lakshmi Sudhakar & Sreekanth Patil Eye Centre Eye Centre Ramachandra Reddy Eye Centre Ravi Eye Centre Mudhole Adilabad, Telangana Eye Centre Karamchedu Markapuram, Andhra Adilabad, Telangana Thoodukurthy Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh Mahbubnagar, Pradesh Telangana Bhainsa Utnoor Wanaparthy Parchuru Tripuranthakam Kubeer Boath Achampet Panguluru Yerragondapalem Nandipet Jainath Nagarkurnool Pedanandipadu Dornala Navipet Bela Kothakota Yeddanapudi Cumbum Narsapur Narnoor Kollapur Marturu Bestavaripeta Lokeshwaram Jainoor Peddakothapally Ballikuruva Giddalur Tanur Jannaram Bijnapally Epurupalem Podili Medarpet Telkapally Chinnaganjam Darsi Gudihathnoor Kalwakurthy Naguluppalapadu Kurichedu Echoda Lingala Vetapalem Chimmakurthi Indravelly Amangal Narasayapalem Neradigonda Sudhakar & Siloam Eye Centre Swarna Bharat Nava Bharat Dr Kommareddy Y Mahabaleshwarappa Sreekanth Ravi Madanapalle Eye Centre Eye Centre Raja Ram Mohan Memorial Eye Centre Eye Centre Chittoor, Andhra Venkatachalam Paloncha Rao Bellary Kandukuru Pradesh Nellore, Andhra Khammam, Eye Centre Karnataka Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh Telangana Gudavalli Pradesh Guntur, Andhra Pradesh Tangutur Nimmanapalle Podalakuru Yellandu Kondapi B Kothakota Kallur Bhattiprolu Lingasamudram Manuguru Amrutaluru Chandrasekharapuram Ashwapuram Singarayakonda Dammapet Pamuru Tekulapally Ulavapadu Cherla Medarametla Chandrugonda Santhanuthalapadu Thallada Kothapatnam Edward and Soona OCL Eye Centre, Brown Eye Centre, Rajgangpur, Odisha Dhulipalla, Guntur, AP Vutukuru GMRV Campus, Visakhapatnam (Srikakulam & Vizianagaram) KVC Campus, Vijayawada Shrungavarapukota Govindapuram Lodagalavanipalem Tekkali Chodavaram Kothavalasa Bhogapuram Hiramandalam Kapileswarapuram Buttayagudem Revidi Kasimkota Mandasa Ranasthalam Kovvali Agiripally Gajapathinagaram Araku Santhabommali Ponduru Pedapadu Vissannapeta K Kotapadu Lakkidam Maliyaputti Kotturu Mylavaram Movva Yalamanchili Lakkavarapukota Pydibhimavaram Narasannapeta Lingala Unguturu Kailasapatnam The Year at a Glance The LVPEI pyramid of service delivery touches all levels of society, from remote rural villages to busy urban centres. From primary eye care to advanced tertiary (quaternary). This year, we reached a total of 1,709,382 people including 175,695 children through these various levels of care. Of these, 1.2 million (1,185,633) received eye care services entirely free of cost as part of our community programs, outpatient and surgical services at various levels. PATIENT CARE Service Delivery: Community Eye Health Programs Entirely free of cost Population covered by door-to-door surveys 629,889 (600 villages surveyed) Population screened 118,222 (1750 community programs) Schools & Anganwadis (creches) covered 632 Population reached 629,889 Children screened 84,058 Total reached 713,947 Outpatient visits Entirely Surgeries Entirely Free of cost Free of cost PRIMARY EYE CARE 116 Vision Centres 195,737 100% NA NA SECONDARY EYE CARE 13 Service Centres 175,141 49.8% 23,338 76.0% TERTIARY EYE CARE Bhubaneswar 113,008 23.1% 11,363 35.4% Visakhapatnam 92,111 28.0% 10,689 38.6% Vijayawada 60,501 27.9% 5,913 48.5% ADVANCED TERTIARY (QUATERNARY) CARE Hyderabad 260,547 27.3% 47,087 42.8% Total 897,045 47.0% 98,390 43.65% Includes 91,637 children Free of cost services are provided irrespective of the complexity of care. These numbers do not include data from our partner centres. Partner Secondary Centres 208,031 46.6% 28,132 62.4% Outpatient Visits Surgical Procedures 4 Annual Report 2014 - 2015 The Year at a Glance The Network Grows (As of 31 March 2014) In operation In process Centre of Excellence 1 -- Tertiary Centres 3 -- Service Centres 13 3 Vision Centres 116 26 Capacity building collaborations Technical consultancy 16 4 in specific areas REHABILITATION Providing a better quality of life Sight enhancement client visits (low vision) 8,416 Vision rehabilitation client visits 17,164 Community based rehabilitation 951 EYE BANKING Facilitating the gift of sight Hyderabad Bhubaneswar* Visakhapatnam* Total Corneas harvested 5,066 700 828 6,594 *Community Eye Bank EDUCATION Enhancing skills and building human resources Ophthalmologists 155 Optometrists 95 Other eye care professionals 151 Vision technicians 45 Participants in CME and other programs 1180 Ophthalmic nursing trainees 21 Community eye health professionals 24 Others 51 In addition, many more attended our CME programs through live webcasts. RESEARCH Pushing the frontiers Presentations International 184 National 363 Publications 248 Awards and Honours 98 5 Annual Report 2014 - 2015 Our Team Gullapalli N Rao Prashant Garg Subhabrata K V Subba Rao M Shobha Chair Director, Academy for Chakrabarti Finance & Accounts Audio Visual Taraprasad Das Eye Care Education Prof Brien Holden Vamshi Krishna NK Elena D Roopchandra Vice Chair Dr G Chandra Sekhar Eye Research Centre Human Resources Research Chair of Education G Chandra Sekhar Shrikant R Bharadwaj Ghanshyam Singh Chaitanya Nelluri Vice Chair Virender S Sangwan Optometry Opticals - Technology & Mark Nathaniel Director, Kallam Director - SRUJANA Vijaya K Gothwal Training Thadikonda & Anji Reddy Campus, Centre for Innovation, Meera & L B Vijayamma Nannepaga Centre for Regenerative Nagavardhan Reddy Hyderabad Deshpande Centre for Opticals - Operations Centre for Eye Care Dr Kallam Anji Reddy Ophthalmology and Sight Enhancement Education Chair of Ophthalmology Dr Paul Dubord Sam Balasundaram Chair of Cornea Beula Christy Fund Raising & Donor Md Hidayath Ali Ramam Atmakuri Dr PRK Prasad Centre Relations Stores Executive Vice Chair Savitri Sharma for Rehabilitation