Sankara Community Eye Hospital - Bihar

Sankara Eye Care Quick facts

Vision 2020
Set up 20 Sankara Community Eye Hospitals all over
India by the year 2020 to serve over a MILLION rural
poor every year

Founded by Dr Ramani and Dr Radha Ramani (1977)

One Millionth totally free eye surgery (Mar 2013)

Over 150,000 free surgeries in 2013-14.

8 Sankara Community Eye hospitals all over India

Among the largest and fastest growing free eye care

providers in the world

Eradicating curable blindness all over India

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Coimbatore
Krishnan Kovil
Guntur
Bengaluru
Shimoga
Anand
Ludhiana
Hrishikesh
Kanpur
Jodhpur
Chattisgarh
Indore (MP)
Bihar
Odisha
Jharkhand
Assam
West Bengal
Maharashtra
Kerala
Goa

Rapid
Expansion
12 additional
hospitals
By 2020

1 - 8 Existing hospitals
9 - 14 Hospitals under construction or land acquisition
15 20 Planned

Impacting over 1 Million rural poor year after year from 2020
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Sankara Vision 20/20 by 2020 blueprint

Super Specialty tertiary eye care hospital

with full range of eye care services

Top class infrastructure: Modern hospital

with state-of-the-art equipment

Highest quality medical outcomes with

highly experienced doctors, medical staff
and personnel

Preserving core values of compassionate

care and selfless service to all patients
i.e. urban paying and the rural poor

Financial self-sufficiency in 5 years for

every new hospital

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Sankara Eye Hospital, Bihar

200 bed super specialty eye hospital

Covers villages within 200 km from base hospital

25,000 free surgeries / year

67,000 poor screened at village camps / year

100,000 + children screened / year

40 local girls employed as paramedics

Girls trained at Coimbatore for 2 yrs. and given

monthly stipend during training

Need help to make this reality by 2017

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Sankara Eye Hospital Bihar : Project Details

City in Bihar to be identified

Need 2 acres of land close to highway

Capital Costs : Rs 36 crores (not including land)

Funds will be raised by Bihar Foundation &

Sankara Eye Foundation in USA and abroad

Sankara India will raise funds as well

Construction commences after 70% of funds

raised and will be completed in 15 months

Recruitment of paramedics will start once land is

procured and some capital funds are collected

Need help to make this reality by 2017

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Gift of Vision

Rural Outreach Eye Care Program

Field workers do a door-to-door survey at
the village, and those needing further
evaluation are given id cards and then
screened by the medical team at eye camps.
Patients needing needing surgery are
transported to the Sankara base hospital in
Sankara buses.

Gift of Vision

Rural Outreach Eye Care Program

Once at the hospital the patients are
provided assessed, surgery performed
provided accommodation and food during
their stay and then transported back to the
village all entirely FREE.
Medical review and follow up is done by
visiting patients at the village 30 days after
they have returned.

One Millionth free eye surgery performed March 2013

75% of what children learn during the early

years of life is processed through their vision.

Early detection, correction and treatment ensures children

have long productive years ahead.

Rainbow
A comprehensive eye care program for
school going children in partnership with
school teachers and other community
organizations.
School teachers are trained to screen all
children in their class with simple vision
chart and kit, and children with ok vision are
screened out usually around 90%
Children needing further examination are
seen by Sankara team and suitable
treatment is undertaken.

Over 4.5 Million children screened

Over 100,000 spectacles distributed

6-15 years age group

Maithri
Preventive Eye Care programme
for the children in the ICDS
Centres. 3-6 years age group

Swagatham
To screen the new born infants
at corporation maternity
centres. 0 -3 years

Diabetic Retinopathy

To establish a comprehensive Diabetic eye care network

To reach out to Rural & Urban populations, screen & treat for
Diabetic eye diseases
To establish a mobile screening team

Sankara Eye Bank

First eye bank to be registered in India (1985)

A model eye bank for the country
Receiving a pair of eyes everyday towards corneal transplants
Keratoprosthesis where ever required

Eye banks at Coimbatore, Guntur,

Bangalore, Shimoga, Anand and Ludhiana

Thank you

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80 Free/ 20 Paid cross subsidy model for self-sufficiency

Surplus from Urban
walk-in paying
patients

Serving rural poor

through outreach

20 Paying Patients

80 FREE PATIENTS

200,000
180,000
160,000
140,000
120,000
100,000
80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
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High leverage

totally FREE

Paying Surgeries

2003-04

80/20

2004-05

2005-06

Cross Subsidy
Model

Non Paying Surgeries

2006-07

2007-08

2008 - 09

2009-10

2010-11

2011-12

2012-13

150,558 (85%) FREE surgeries in FY 2012-13

Long term mission partners

Key Donors and Institutions supporting Sankara over the years

Sankara Eye Foundation, USA (since 1998)

Mission for Vision (since 1993)
Orbis International (project support)
Sightsavers
Rotary International (project and program support)
Infosys Foundation (Bangalore hospital)
Ratan Tata Trust (Sankara Academy of Vision)
Robert Bosch Foundation (support for training)
Calvert Foundation
Key Financial Institutions supporting over the years

Canara Bank (Commercial and CSR)

Yunus Social Business Fund, India (Soft loans)

Sankara has close long term relationships and receives continued support from its
funding partners based on its proven track record over the years
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Awards and Accolades