Activity Report2019-2020
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Established in 1987, L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, is working towards preventing needless blindness and vision impairment.
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Patient Care
Eye Banking
Education Capacity Building
Rural and Community Eye Health
Research
TechnologyInnovation
Product Development
Advocacy, Policy and Planning
Vision Rehabilitation
Functional Arms
India
Vision Health Guardians
As of March 2020 we have 184 Vision Centres, 20 Secondary Eye Care Centres, 2 Urban City Centres, 3 Tertiary Eye Care Centres and our flagship Centre of Excellence. Additionally, LVPEI has 9 Partner Centres and
1 Overseas Partnership in West Africa - the Liberia Eye Center in Monrovia.
210 Centres
LVPEI Eye Care Network
Serve 5000 population
Ranked as the Best in Ophthalmology
Awards and Honours
Times Health Survey 2019 ranked LVPEI Hyderabad as the Best Ophthalmology Hospital – at national, regional and city levels.
Mahatma Award 2019
Honoured with the Mahatma Award 2019 in the category - Social Good
The Week-Hansa Research Survey for best hospitals ranked LVPEI Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar and Visakhapatnam as second, thirteen and fifteen respectively in the Ophthalmology category.
Fourth Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for LVPEI
Dr Mohammad Javed Ali has been honoured with the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award (Category - Medical Sciences), the highest multidisciplinary science award in India. This is LVPEI’s fourth Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award.
LVPEI OM (Order of Magnitude), an intelligent clinical vision screening device, has won the Nasscom Tech4Good Healthcare prize.
The device developed to test visual fields in babies by the team led by Dr PremNandhini Satgunam, the pediatric perimeter, is LVPEI’s first product to be granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Award for Eye Banking
Nasscom Tech4Good Healthcare prizeFirst patent granted
Ramayamma International Eye Bank awarded the ‘Dr AP Sah Memorial Rolling Trophy’ for best performance by Eye Bank Association of India.
LVPEI campuses won several awards for sanitation, cleanliness, infection control and their beautiful gardens.
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50% plus services provided
free of cost, regardless of complexity
Total population reached
30.64
Corneas collected
Surgeries
million 1.69
PhDs awarded46
Patent granted1
105,448
Outpatients
million 16.28
Reached through community eye
health initiatives
million 12.66
Children reached 4.46
Rehabilitated
million 0.186
Villages reached 11,816
Innovative stem cell based
procedures
1853
Publications3029
Personnel trained
26,179
PhDs awarded51
58,957Corneas
distributed
Impact 1987 - March 2020
58,957
105,448
Corneas collected
Corneas distributed
Corneas that are found unsuitable for surgeries, are used in training and research
30 Years of Eye Banking
*Hospital Cornea Retrieval Program (HCRP) was initiated in 1990 to focus on deaths that occur at hospitals and encourage eye donations by motivating the donor families. Currently, HCRP runs in 24 hospitals.
Through40 Partner Centres
Voluntary donations
HCRP*
70%
20%
10%
Cornea Collection
Hospitals supported through capacity building programs
19Advocacy and awareness
generation programs
1132
Patent granted
1
1,571,452Outpatients
161,551Surgeries Rehabilitated
6183Reached through community
eye health initiatives
432,754
395 Publications
353 presentations
Awards10910,924
Corneas collected6531
Corneas distributed
Trained
4146
2019 - 2020
Kallam Anji Reddy Campus
Outpatients
450,71730%
non-paying
Surgeries
73,24236%
non-paying 2019-2020
Till d
ate*
Surgeries
794,43741%
non-paying
Outpatients
6,173,63229%
non-paying
*June 1987 (inauguration of the campus) – March 2020
Mithu Tulsi Chanrai Campus
Outpatients
157,53926%
non-paying
Surgeries
23,80043%
non-paying 2019-2020
Till d
ate*
Surgeries
147,17240%
non-paying
Outpatients
1,365,093 24%
non-paying
*July 2006 (inauguration of the campus) – March 2020
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
Hyderabad, Telangana
Outpatients
140,85819%
non-paying
Surgeries
19,11527%
non-paying 2019-2020
Till d
ate*
Surgeries
126,08239%
non-paying
Outpatients
1,159,34926%
non-paying
*July 2006 (inauguration of the campus) – March 2020
Till d
ate*
Outpatients
95,40242%
non-paying
Surgeries
12,28360%
non-paying 2019-2020
Surgeries
62,21853%
non-paying
Outpatients
620,00336%
non-paying
*February 2011 (inauguration of the campus) – March 2020
Kode Venkatadri Chowdary CampusVijayawada, Andhra Pradesh
GMR Varalakshmi CampusVisakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
Patient Care
2,165,757Population reached
43%Paying
54%Male
46%Female
57%Nonpaying
25%Children
75%Adults
73,403
Door-to-door surveys
287,760
Children’s eye health initiatives1,571,452
Outpatients
71,591
Community screening programs
161,551Surgeries
Vision Rehabilitation
6183 Rehabilitated
5007
benefited fromcommunity outreach
services
1176
availed low vision andvision rehabilitation
services
Nonpaying27%
Children44%
Female37%
Rural and Community Eye Health
Population reached through
Children’s eye health initiatives 2,87,760Door-to-door surveys 73,403Community screening programs 71,591
100% services provided at no cost to themChildren11%
Female53%
Secondary Centres
365,198 Outpatients33,111 Surgeries
36% outpatient and 55% surgical servicesprovided at no cost to the patients
Vision Centres361,738 Outpatients
100% outpatient services providedat no cost to the patients
Ramayamma International
Eye BankHyderabad
7729
Mohsin Eye Bank Visakhapatnam
1099
Drushtidaan Eye Bank
Bhubaneswar
1276
TKEB Vijayawada
820
10,924 Corneas Collected
9914 Corneas Utilized
2910 distributed to LVPEI surgeons
3621 distributed to surgeons outside the LVPEI network
3383 used for training
Eye Banking
Others* - training provided in Eye Banking, Community Eye Health, Low Vision and Vision Rehabilitation, Ophthalmic Nurse Assistance and Vision Technicians' course
1866Ophthalmologists
1131Optometrists
1149Others*
Long-term and short-term education programs
776 41 National International
Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Professional Development(CPD) programs
Online initiatives
Trainees trained
Education
2718
611
817
395Publications
68Grants Received*
3PhDs Awarded
* Basic – 46, Clinical - 17, Public Health - 3 & Others - 2
Research
Technology and Product Innovation
1Patent
granted
25Partnerships
8Technology
in clinic
5Technology
under validation
2Products exported
1ISO 13485
certified manufacturing
facility
Advocacy, Policy & PlanningAdvocacy at all levels
International• Dr Rohit Khanna: (a) Invited as an ‘expert’ to the various advocacy meetings organized by WHO (b) Is part of the
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) Board of Trustees and is invited as mentor for their various working groups
• Dr Taraprasad Das: (a) Is the Regional Chair of IAPB (b) Along with the WHO South-East Asia Regional Office, he works with the government of the eleven countries associated with it
National • Dr Taraprasad Das: Works with the Government of India as the President of VISION 2020 India - the Right
to Sight program
State • LVPEI works closely with the state governments of Telangana, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh to provide primary eye
care to the community and for policy planning• Helped the state government of Andhra Pradesh in the planning and implementation of universal screening of all
children and subsequent care• Dr Taraprasad Das: Continues to work for Odisha Universal Eye Health Program ‘Sunetra’ focused on primary eye
care and capacity building• Dr Gullapalli N Rao: Is the member of the eminent group appointed by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen
Patnaik, to advise on the transformation of SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack into a world-class institution
As part of community outreach initiatives, LVPEI is supporting Jawaharlal Rohtagi Lions Eye Hospital in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, in establishing four Primary Eye Care Centres. Assistance was provided to them in terms of needs assessment, selection of location, procuring the right equipment and training the Vision Technicians.
Capacity Building
Dispensing spectaclesSurgeriesOutpatients268%379%237%
Through the project Strengthening Capacity and Learning to Effectively Deliver QualityEye Care (SCALE), in partnership with Seva Foundation, LVPEI is helping build the capacity of 14 hospitals across India.
The average capacity of our partner hospitals since our intervention has increased by:
In collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank, LVPEI is providing technical and learning support to the following hospitals to upgrade them as Educational Hubs.
C L Gupta Eye Institute, Uttar PradeshChandra Prabha Eye Hospital, AssamMGM Eye Institute, Chhattisgarh Little Flower Hospital & Research Centre, KeralaAlakh Nayan Mandir Eye Institute, Rajasthan
These hospitals will become important training centres in their respective states for eye care personnel across all cadres.
Managed by LVPEI, The Liberia Eye Center is located at the John F Kennedy Memorial Medical Center in Monrovia, West Africa. A dedicated team, the majority of whom are Liberians, is working towards providing sustainable and affordable world-class eye care to all Liberian citizens, irrespective of their ability to pay.
The Liberia Eye Center
14,292
Outpatients48% nonpaying
1331
Surgeries63% nonpaying
5407Screened through
community outreach initiatives
These Institutes of Excellence at LVPEI encompass care across the network - from primary to advancedtertiary care, education, research, public health, planning and policy.
LVPEI is also relentlessly working towards establishing:
• Glaucoma Institute
• The Center of Excellence for Rare Eye Diseases
• Institute for Regenerative Ophthalmology
• Retina Institute
Standard Chartered-LVPEI Academy for Eye Care Education
Operation Eyesight Universal Institute for Eye Cancer
The Cornea Institute
Govindram Seksaria Institute of Dacryology
Aurobindo Geriatric Eye Care Centre
Centre of Excellence in Eye Banking
Gullapalli Pratibha Rao International Centre for Advancement of Rural Eye Care
Child Sight Institute
Institute for Vision Rehabilitation
Institutes of
Excellence