Hyderabad :
L V Prasad Eye Institute as opened its (LVPEI) 100th vision centre for primary care at Araku village in Visakhapatnam district.
“With this, about 2000 villages in Andhra Pradesh will be provided high quality primary eye care,’’ the Hyderabad-based institute said in a release issued here on Saturday.
To serve the under-privileged communities and reach the unreached segment in the eye health, the Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care (GPR ICARE), the public health component of LVPEI, has established a network of vision centres (primary centres) linked to Secondary Centres across rural and remote rural locations in the State.
With the Araku centre, LVPEI’s network of community eye care services now comprises 100 primary care vision centres and 11 secondary care service centres that have served nearly 2.5 million people thus far. These centres had screened close to 1.30 lakh people last year, about 70,000 of them school children.
The institute’s latest secondary centre was launched in Bellary, in the neighbouring state of Karnataka, and there were projects under way to expand the network into Odisha as well.
Commenting on the occasion, Gullapalli N Rao, Founder and Chair – LVPEI said: “ICARE aspires to evolve into a highly efficient eye health care service delivery component for LVPEI as we step into another year.”
source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com / Business Line / Home> News> National / by The Hindu Bureau / Hyderabad – January 05th, 2014