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A. Sankar Rao
FounderFounder 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
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Visakhapatnam
- Founded
- 1997
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute was established by philanthropist Sri A. Sankar Rao in 1997.” — Sankar Foundation Eye Hospital & Institute. Source
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