Aravind Eye Hospital
service providers
About Us
Realizing this, Dr. Venkataswamy wished to establish an alternate health care model that could supplement the efforts of the government and also be self-supporting. Following his retirement at age 58 in 1976, he established the GOVEL Trust under which Aravind Eye Hospitals were founded.
Vision
Provide compassionate and quality eye care affordable to all.
Mission
Extending the reach of quality eye care to the poor and needy – through active community involvement, screening camps, and IT enabled Vision Centres in rural areas.
What We Do
Aravind provides the same high standard of care irrespective of a patient’s ability to pay. 50% of the patients receive services either free or at steeply subsidised rates. Outreach eye camps have been the cornerstone of Aravind’s high-volume work. Every year, Aravind conducts around 2,500 free eye screening camps in rural areas. These camps contribute about 40% to the total cataract surgeries performed at Aravind Eye Hospitals.
Contact
Aravind Eye Hospital,
Opp. Vivekananda Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
Dharapuram Main Road,
K. Chettipalayam Post,
Tirupur 641 608, Tamil Nadu, India.