Mission for Vision (MFV) has been working towards eradication of curable blindness in India for last 20 years.
Over the years, MFV has partnered with eye hospitals and facilitated more than 1.0 million eye surgeries. This year, we are planning 175,000 free eye surgeries. We are jow building an eye hospital in Ludhiana which will help us fulfil our vision of an eye hospital in every State of India. Kindly let us know where we can make a detailed presentation as we solicit your support for this cause.MFV has agreed to bear the cost of the community wing which will have 100 beds. The construction and equipment will cost USD 1.0 million. We seek your support for this prestigious project.
Also, we have agreed with our partners to facilitate 177,000 free eye surgeries in 2011-12. We seek your support in sponsoring some of these surgeries. At a cost of USD 50, we can provide the gift of vision to one person.
The construction of the hospital has started and is expected to be operational in April 2012.
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Mission for Vision (MFV) is a registered charitable trust was founded to provide low cost, quality ophthalmic are to the poor and needy of India, mainly in rural areas. MFV has been partnering with reputed eye institutions (partners), in addition to building its own hospital, towards this cause. Mission for Vision started the journey towards eradication of avoidable blindness way back in 1991 with one hospital in Coimbatore performing 600 surgeries annually. You also had a dream - a dream to provide accessibility to eye care to every Indian. This dream has been partially fulfilled with 13 hospitals in 8 States which will perform more than 160,000 free eye surgeries in 2010-11. This journey over 19 years has been extremely fulfilling - over the last 19 years, more than 1million people have received the gift of vision Mission for Vision has put in an elaborate system to identify patients in the villages with curable blindness; bring them to the main hospitals; operate on them; and take them back to their houses. All these services including the food in the hospital is provided free of cost to the patients. Vision : To restore gift of vision to every visually impaired human being, irrespective of nationality, religion or socio-economic status.Mission : To establish in partnership a hospital in every State of India providing free high quality eye care to the rural poor.Methods & Procedures adopted by Mission for Vision in the camp and hospitals: ¢ Screening of patients by trained para-medical staff in rural communities. Mission for Vision's unique model of sustenance - where the partner hospitals follows the ratio of 80:20 (80% of all surgeries are free and 20% is paying) will ensure that each hospital becomes self sustainable in 5 years. Mission for Vision has a unique patient care team who is responsible for evaluating the quality of Patient Care that is provided by the hospitals to all the patients. The objectives of the patient care team are:
As Mission for Vision begins the 20th year of operations, we want to dream again....a dream of becoming the largest eye care partnership in the world. This is our Vision 2020 - to partner with 25 eye hospitals in 20 States of India which will have a capacity to perform 300,000 free eye surgeries annually. India has 12 million blind - the highest globally, every year 2 million go blind, 62% from cataract. The prevalence in rural: 1.63%; Urban: 1.01%. The number of cataract operations performed per year, per million populations is called the Cataract Surgical Rate (CSR). In developed countries, the CSR is close to 10,000 per million populations while in India the national average is about 5000. The average is low due to the very low CSR is Central, North and North-East India viz States like Arunchal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, West Bengal, Nagaland, Bihar, Kerala, Manipur, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Assam, Uttaranchal, Andaman and Nicobar, Harayana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and Chattisgarh. These States will be the focus of Mission for Vision over the next 10 years. Mission for Vision had initiated the process of moving with North India with hospitals in Rishikesh and West Bengal. In 2011, we have already identified a partner in Assam whereby we will not only have a foot print in Assam but over next 2-3 year, can also address the challenge of avoidable blindness in the neighboring States in North-East India. The ground breaking of the Sankara Eye Hospital in Ludhiana, Punjab was carried out in December 2010 and the hospital is expected to be functional in early 2012. The next two hospitals planned with Sankara Eye Hospital will be in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan and hopefully we should be able to identify a partner in Bihar soon. Mission for Vision is also developing a program where we should be able to provide technical expertise to other developing countries. As a first step, we have started communicating with the Indian High Commissioner of Senegal for a surgical eye camp. Today, we appeal all of you to join us in this mission. Vision is a Gift of God; to behold the beauty of nature. Whatever be the cause, to be blind is not fair, if it can be prevented or cured by quality eye care. What we are fighting in India is a 'war against avoidable blindness and which needs to be won. In this war there is no withdrawal, neither surrender. There is only one way forward. We at Mission for Vision are duty bound to address this challenge and as we move to North India, we seek you support and patronage so that we can be successful in this endeavour. |
EVERY FIVE SECONDS ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD GOES BLIND;
ONE OUT OF EVERY FIVE BLIND IN THE WORLD IS AN INDIANIf you wish to visit our projects in India, need additional information or would like to support our work, please contact:
Moloy Chakravorty
Chief Operating Officer
Mission for Vision
112 A, Mittal Tower
Nariman Point
Mumbai, India
Ph : + 91 22 22824967/4994
Fax : + 91 22 22040037
Mobile : +91 9819122170