Highlights
- Conducted quarterly reviews of 14 partner hospitals for SEVA Foundation’s Global Sight Initiative. These reviews included assessment of performance, financial sustainability, operational issues, and giving appropriate recommendations.
- ‘Super Vision Program’ strengthens primary eye care in remote areas with SEVA Foundation‘s support. Eight partner hospitals with 76 Vision Centres are enrolled in this program. Support is provided through a collaborative approach, organizing workshops to identify challenges and develop solutions. Action plans were created for generating patient volumes, maintaining quality, and achieving sustainability.
- Supported Mumbai’s Shantilal Shanghvi Foundation to build a not-for-profit ‘Shantilal Shanghvi Eye Institute’ that aims to provide high quality comprehensive eye care to all individuals, regardless of their ability to pay. LVPEI has assisted the group with infrastructure design, equipment installation, staff training and development, and technology acquisition.
- The ‘Educational Hubs’ facilitated by LVPEI organized over 19 training programs, benefiting over 2200 eye care professionals, with support from Standard Chartered Bank. Additionally, over 15 faculty development programs were conducted as part of this initiative. ‘Educational Hubs’ are eye care hospitals that have been identified and upgraded as regional resource centres, for eye care personnel at all levels.
- Initiated the Integrated People Centred Eye Care (IPEC) program in Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Sri Lankan Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB). Dr Rohit C Khanna, Network Director, Public Health, LVPEI, has been appointed as the technical lead for the initiative.
Trained partner hospitals on adopting best practices and IPC (Infection, Prevention and Control) protocols for delivering safe and quality eye care to patients during COVID times
With the support received from Seva Foundation provided partner hospitals with Personal Protective Equipment to help them continue to deliver eye care, even in the rural areas
LVPEI is currently working closely with the Mumbai-based Shantilal Shanghvi Foundation to build the city’s first not-for-profit eye institute that would offer quality patient care with vocational education, translational research, and public health.
In collaboration with SEVA Foundation’s Global Sight Initiative, built capacity of 14 partner hospitals - analysing the challenges they are facing in their integral functions such as supply chain management, quality maintenance, financial sustainability, and demand generation, and helping them devise strategies to overcome those challenges for better performance.
In our constant endeavour to make primary eye care accessible and affordable for all across the country, helped three of our partner centres to setup Vision Centres in remote locations where they were much needed - Ramban district, Jammu and Kashmir (KLSM Rotary Eye Hospital); Sayla district, Rajasthan (GHIO Abu Eye Hospital) and Bidar district, Karnataka (Velemegna Good news Society).
After a detailed needs assessment, enrolled eight partner hospitals in ‘Super Vision’ program to help them establish primary eye care services in their catchment areas.
Educational Hubs
LVPEI is supporting five hospitals in India, courtesy Standard Chartered Bank, to upgrade them as Educational Hubs. These hospitals will become important training centres in their respective states for eye care personnel across all cadres. Additionally, LVPEI also has six hubs in its areas of operation.