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Mr Swapnil Arun Gawande
Started the workFounder of Deesha Education Foundation
Mr Swapnil Arun Gawande is the started the work of Deesha Education Foundation (2010)[1], an Indian non-profit working on healthcare from Amravati.
Deesha Education Foundation
Deesha Education Foundation operates a network of eye banks across Amravati, Yavatmal, Washim and Buldhana in the Vidarbha region, providing round-the-clock eye-donation retrieval and coordinating corneal transplants. Founded in 2010, it also runs school and village eye-checkup camps, including mobile clinics in tribal areas.
Deesha Education Foundation reports the following, on its own site:
- 14,12,000+ eye/organ donation pledges collected through awareness programmes
- 12,700+ eye donations facilitated through Deesha International Eye Bank
- 3,00,000+ patients screened in remote and rural areas
- Organisations
- 1
- Based in
- Amravati
- Founded
- 2010
- Press
- 1
References
- [1] “The work was started by Mr Swapnil Arun Gawande at a very young age after the sad demise of a close friend.” — Deesha Education Foundation. Source
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