this presentation is about aravind eye clicnic

1. Aravind Eye Hospital
Making A Dent In Global Blindness
Introduction:
Aravind Eye Hospital is internationally recognized as an best institution suited
to make not just a dent, but a grand canyon in the world of blindness.
Nearly twenty-four million blind in the world.
One-Third of them are unnecessarily blind.
Aravind Eye Clinic perfected an assembly-line technique of surgery to increase
the productivity.
Thousands of blind poor are operated for free and only 30% of its patients pay
fees.
Makes 35% operating profit.
Treats 2.4 million outpatients and does 2,86,000 cataract surgeries every year.

2. Beginning with A Dream:
 Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy wanted to be a gynecologist after his 3 cousins died in
early childhood.
 But as he was going to start his career he fall sick and was bedridden for 2 years with
crippling rheumatoid arthritis.
 He recovered from his disease but he couldn’t do the heavy surgical work required to do
for gynecology and he took for ophthalmology.
 Dr.V had a dream to eliminate unnecessary blindness in India.
 Treating unnecessary blindness became passion for him.
 While engaging the treatment of blind people he realized that he was just not restoring
eye sight but extending the lifespan of treated people.
 After retiring in 1976 he decided to setup a hospital to treat unnecessary blindness and
this is how a dream Aravind Eye Hospital started. And to support Dr.V his sister and
her husband joint Dr.V

3. Following The Dream
 The trio needed funding to begin this dream project.
 They thought that it would not be difficult to raise money for this good cause. But
they were mistaken. Nobody helped.
 Banks also refused to give them loan. After that they decided not to ask for loan
again.
 They began with 11 bed hospital in Dr. V’s house and G. Srinivasan mortgage Jewllery
to buy equipments.
 In a few years 2 more Doctors joined Dr.V. and the pool of doctors grew to 5.
 G. Srinivasan, an engineer, took charge of the construction and the finances.
 Following Milestones were achieved:
1. 1977: bulit a building with thirty beds
2. 1978: built a low-c0st hospital with a hundred beds
3. 1980: moved into its present facility at madurai
4. 1982: present facility expanded to 200 beds and 3 operating rooms
5. 1984: free hospital set up with 400 beds and 3 operating rooms

4. 6. 1985: Aravind hospital at Theni set up
7. 1988: Aravind Hospital at Tirunelveli set up for 135 paing 400 free patients
8. 1991: Facility at Madurai expanded to accommodate 280 paying and 1100 free
patients.
9. 1992: Aurolab set up
10. 1996: Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology set up.
11. 1997: Aravind, Coimbatore, set up
12. 1999: hostel for PG doctors set up
13. 2001: free hospital expanded to accommodate another 400 patients.
14. 2001: nurses residential qaurters set up
15. 2003: Aravind Pondicherry, set up
16. 2004: Outpatient clinic at Melur Started, now expanded to four outpatient clinics at
Thirumangalam, Tuticorin, and Tirupur.
17. 2005: Vision centre serving population of 50,000 piloted, has grown to 30 vision
centres at present
18. 2007: New state-of-art manufacturing facility inaugurated, manufacturing intraocular
lenses, sutures, blades and pharmaceutical products used in eye care.
19. 2007: Aravind Managed Eye Care Service Division started to manage eye hospitals in
other parts of the country.
20. 2007: Dr. V Eye Research Institute, a new research facility started to conduct research
in molecular biology, genetic disorders in eyes and proteomic studies.

5. The Famous Assembly Line:
 As Dr. V and his team started conducting cataract surgeries in rural areas by travelling
hundreds of kilometers. But the impact seemed to be very small
 Around this time Dr. V went to U.S and learned assembly line operations from
McDonald’s restaurants.
 And it made a radical differnce.
 An average ophthalmologist operates on 250 to 400 patients a year.
 An Aravind ophthalmologist using McDonald’s assembly line technique operates 2000
patients a year.
 At Aravind in One operation theatre has 4 operating tables laid side by side and 2
surgeons handle these 4 tables.
 And 4 nurses assist the doctors so that other work of doctor’s released and doctor’s can
concentrate more on surgeries.

6. The Dynamics of Next-Horizon Thinking
 Everyone in Aravind strikes about the next horizon.
 Aravind Eye Hospital is currently doing2,86,000 surgeries a year and Dr. Aravind
talks about scaling this to 1 million by 2015.
 Dr. Nam talks about eradicating diabetic-related blindness in another 10 years despite
of the fact that there are around 42 million diabetics, of which 20% tend to suffer
from diabetics-related blindness.
 Dr. V talks about using IT and rural internet connectivity to bring in more patients.
 The entire organiztion is obsessed with the next horizon
 The ambition now is to reach a billion people.