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G. Venkataswamy
FounderFounder of Aravind Eye Care System
G. Venkataswamy is the founder of Aravind Eye Care System (1976)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Madurai.
Aravind Eye Care System
Aravind Eye Care System provides high-volume, high-quality eye care and cataract surgery, offering free or subsidised treatment to the poor. It is renowned globally for its efficient, sustainable model of eliminating needless blindness.
Aravind Eye Care System reports the following, on its own site:
- Over 7.2 lakh eye surgeries and procedures performed a year
- More than 90 million outpatient visits and 10.8 million surgeries since inception
- 15 eye hospitals, 8 outpatient eye examination centres and 118 primary eye care facilities
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Madurai
- Founded
- 1976
- Press
- 4
References
- [1] “Aravind Eye Care System will remember the year 2006 as the year it lost its founder, the legendary Padma Shri Dr. G. Venkataswamy on July 7.” — Aravind Eye Care System. Source
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