Vision Centers

Traditional outreach camps offer limited-time services to specific audiences, primarily focusing on cataract identification and refractive errors. In contrast, our Vision Centers provide a continuous, local presence, allowing for:

• ● Comprehensive Eye Screenings: Beyond cataracts and refractive errors, we detect conditions like glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy.
• ● Flexible Access: Patients can seek care at their convenience without time constraints.
• ● Affordable Services: Proximity encourages timely consultations, fostering better eye health.
• ● Tele-Ophthalmology: Access to expert ophthalmologists through advanced telemedicine technology.

The Vision Centers initiative, operated in collaboration with Pammal Sankara Eye Hospital, establishes permanent community-based facilities that provide comprehensive eye care services without the time constraints of traditional outreach camps. Each center is strategically located to serve over 115,000 individuals, with a goal to benefit more than 720,000 people over five years through prevention of avoidable blindness.

• ● Program partner: Pammal Sankara Eye Hospital
• ● Model: Permanent community-based facilities (not time-limited camps)
• ● Services: Comprehensive eye screenings, glaucoma detection, diabetic retinopathy detection, refractive error correction, cataract surgery referrals, tele-ophthalmology
• ● 2021 achievement: 13 Vision Centers inaugurated
• ● Coverage per center: 115,000+ individuals
• ● Five-year goal: Benefit 720,000+ people
• ● Expansion target: 40 Vision Centers
• ● Target districts: Chennai, Chengalpattu, Kanchipuram, Ranipet, Tiruvallur, Tiruvannamalai, Vellore