A. Sankar Rao

Founder

Founder of Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute

A. Sankar Rao is the founder of Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute (1997)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Visakhapatnam.

Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute

A trust-run tertiary eye hospital in Visakhapatnam delivering affordable and free eye care since 1999. It runs a NABH-accredited 200-bed facility with outreach camps across rural Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, and provides the majority of its surgeries free of cost to underprivileged patients.

Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute reports the following, on its own site:

the hospital has grown into a multi-centre network that performs over 4,02,576 surgeries — of which 2,77,190 were provided entirely free for the underprivileged
500K+ Surgeries, 350+ Outreach camps, 120K+ Lives reached