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Colours, scenery, movies, and this screen, if you're reading this - many of us tend to take for granted what millions can't see. Thank God for little miracles like an eye hospital, and for bigger ones like Information Technology.
International Institute Of Information Technology (IIIT-H), as part of its 10th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series, is conducting a talk on 'Information Technology In Eye Care: Aravind Model', on 27th August at 3pm, at Saranga Hall on its campus. The lecture will be delivered by Dr. P Namperumalsamy, Chairman, Aravind Eye Hospitals (Madurai).
The lecture will discuss the success story of Aravind Eye Care, an eye care facility with several locations in India. It started with 11 beds in a rental building in 1976, and now houses almost 4,000 beds and treats 3 million patients per year. There are around 3,00,000 surgeries performed every year, and this amounts to 45% of the total eye care in Tamilnadu, and about 4% of the national figure.
The motto of Aravind Eye Care System is "You have to do what others don
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