An extremely laudable effort in not only providing services but also in networking & spreading eye related education as a preventive. Excellent utility of the existing infrastructure.
Shobhana Bhartia
Executive & Editorial Director
The Hindustan Times Ltd.
(02.09.1995)
Outreach
Venu’s
three tier structure is geared towards Community Ophthalmology.
There are six satellite hospitals at the Secondary Level with their
own operation theatres equipped to do cataract and other major surgeries
like glaucoma. Located around Delhi, covering a radius and a population
of around 35 million people, these hospitals are located in District
Gurgaon, District Faridabad, District Jhajjhar, District Rewari
in Haryana, District Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh and District Sawai
Madhopur in Rajasthan. Most recent addition to our satellite network
is the satellite hospital under construction in Ramnagar, District
Nainital, Uttaranchal, which will be the seventh satellite in this
network of satellite hospitals.
A complete list of Satellite hospitals and their
location are as follows:
Venu Eye Hospital
Plot No. 85 , Ranikhet-Ramnagar State Highway,
Next to Nagar Palika Community Centre, Ramnagar,
Distt Nainital, Uttaranchal
All these hospitals are equipped to do routine surgeries,
including cataract with phaco emulsification technique. There are
well qualified ophthalmologists and paramedics permanently stationed
at each of these hospitals. Specialists visit the hospitals at least
once a week. Complicated cases are identified and brought back to
the Base Hospital in Delhi. Regular screening camps in the district
help in spreading awareness about eye diseases. They seek out schools
for the screening of the young with the aim of reducing visual impairment
among children, and enhancing community awareness.
The primary level consists of 22 peripheral centres
providing primary eye care services including refraction and post
operative care. These peripheral centres operate from both the base
as well as satellite hospitals, covering the entire district of
each satellite with a varying population of hundred and fifty thousand
to three hundred thousand. At these centres patients identified
for surgery are taken to either the base hospital or the satellite
hospital under whose purview the peripheral centre is functioning.
For post operative follow up the patients visit the peripheral centres.
For areas which cannot be covered through regular peripheral visits,
surgical and diagnostic camps help to reach the much needed service
to under-served or unserved areas.