Dr. Sunil Chandra Bagchi
FoundersFounder of Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre
Dr. Sunil Chandra Bagchi is the founders of Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre (1998)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Kolkata.
Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre
Founded in 1998 in Salt Lake, Kolkata by Dr. Sreeradha Bagchi Paul and fellow philanthropist-doctors, Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre has grown from a clinic seeing 80-odd patients a day into one of eastern India's largest eye-care networks, with branches from Berhampore and Purulia to Bhagalpur in Bihar. Its sub-specialty services span cataract, glaucoma, cornea, retina, paediatric ophthalmology and ocular oncology, and its eye bank is among the region's most active.
Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre reports the following, on its own site:
- Serves on average 1,000 outpatients and 100 in-patients per day
- Grew from 80-90 daily outpatients in 1999 to a nine-storied hospital in Salt Lake inaugurated in 2006
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Kolkata
- Founded
- 1998
- Press
- 2
References
- [1] “In the year 1998, Dr. Sunil Chandra Bagchi and Dr. Ratish Chandra Paul founded Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre with a vision to eradicate blindness and make this world a beautiful place to those who are still in darkness.” — Susrut Eye Foundation & Research Centre. Source
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