Aravind Eye Hospitals

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Aravind Eye Hospitals
legal form Foundation, endowment
founding 1976
Seat Madurai , India
management RD Ravindran
( Chairman of the Board of Directors )
Branch Health care, clinics and hospitals
Website www.aravind.org

Aravind Clinic in Madurai

Aravind Eye Hospitals is a hospital chain in India . The first clinic was founded in 1976 by Govindappa Venkataswamy in Madurai . Today's network of eye clinics, which comprises 13 hospitals, had a major impact on overcoming the cataract- related blindness in India. Since 2012, Aravind has treated nearly 32 million patients and performed 4 million surgeries. The Aravind model is internationally recognized as an example of high quality, inexpensive medicine. The methods used are the subject of numerous case studies.

history

Venkataswamy aimed to eradicate unnecessary blindness in India and founded the Aravind Eye Hospitals in Madurai in 1976 for this purpose. Then Aravind opened a clinic in Theni in 1985 and in Tirunelveli in 1988 . The Coimbatore hospital opened in 1997.

According to his own statement, Venkataswamy was inspired by the efficiency of McDonald’s and tried to use appropriate methods to increase the efficiency of the eye care system in order to cope with the increasing number of patients treated. When operations were carried out on a large scale, the treatment of the poor clients was subsidized by the paying patients.

Cataract treatment revolutionized at the beginning of the 21st century when Aravind began to cooperate with the Swiss entrepreneur Emil Hohl . The insertion of the intraocular lens had been optimized over the decades on the basis of the method developed by Harold Ridley . Only the use of elastic materials made it possible - in contrast to the previously common acrylic glass lenses - to insert the lens in the folded state through an incision only about 2.5 to 3 mm in size at the edge of the cornea , after which it unfolds in the capsular bag and with two more elastic ones Centered and fixed bracket by itself. The operation now only takes fifteen minutes and can be performed on an outpatient basis. The patients are prepared for the operation in large rooms and the surgeon moves from patient to patient to perform the operation with an ultrasound machine and an injection syringe. After the procedure, patients remain under observation for a few hours and can then return home.

Aravind later expanded to five other cities in Tamil Nadu , including Tiruppur , Salem , Dindigul , Thoothukudi , Udumalaipettai and neighboring Pondicherry . Aravind is building an INR 1.4 billion hospital in Chennai with a capacity of 60,000 operations per year. The group also has four partnership projects: with the Rajiv Gandhi Chairtable Trust in Amethi , another in Lucknow , the Birla Corporation in Calcutta and the Shanghvi Trust in Amreli , Gujarat . In addition, Aravind has launched what is known as an outreach program, in which doctors in remote villages occasionally carry out eye camps in conjunction with various organizations. The organizations take care of the cost of the warehouse and transport the patients to the surgery, while Aravind does the surgery for free.

In January 2019, the first clinic outside of India opened in Abuja .

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ Tina Rosenberg: A Hospital Network With a Vision. In: Opinionator. January 16, 2013. Retrieved May 6, 2019 (American English).
  4. ↑ Tracey Vickers, Ellen Rosen: Driving down the cost of high-quality care: Lessons from the Aravind Eye Care System. In: Health International 2011 Number 11. McKinsey & Company, January 1, 2011, accessed on May 6, 2019 .
  5. ^ V. Kasturi Rangan: Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
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  7. ^ Aravind Eye Care System - Social Enterprise Institute at Northeastern University. Retrieved May 6, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Naazneen Karmali: McDonald's and Dr. V. Forbes, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  9. ↑ See from the assembly line. October 23, 2013, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  10. ^ V. Kasturi Rangan: The Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight. In: Harvard Business School Case Collection. Harvard Business School, May 2009, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  11. ^ India Constructs at Eye Hospital in Abuja, Nigeria. In: Flowerbud News. January 15, 2019, Retrieved May 6, 2019 (American English).