Centre of Excellence in Glaucoma
The Aravind Eye Hospital is recognized as one of the world's most productive eye hospital, handling the largest patient volume. It has developed a unique service delivery model for cataract for the developing world, which has been globally accepted. In 2001, the Aravind eye hospital have performed over 200,000 eye surgeries and handled over a million outpatient visits.
Carl Zeiss is an organization deeply committed to provide high quailty eye care through a wide range of state-of-the art diagnostic technology and instrumentation in ophthalmology. With a deep commitment to improve eye care in the developing world, this century-old organization is involved in promoting skills and educating ophthalmic personnel in the use of new technology.
The Aravind-Zeiss Centre of Excellence in Glaucoma is established with a commitment to combat needless blindness due to glaucoma by enhancing quality of patient care and education of ophthalmologists in early diagnosis and therapy.
The objectives of this initiative are:
- To impart the requisite clinical skilss for early diagnosis of glaucoma to ophthalmologists in the developing world.
- To develop their interpretive skills in new modalities of investigations.
- To conduct peridical CME programmes for postgraduates and practicing ophthalmologists to update their knowledge in glaucoma diagnosis and management.
- To establish community outreach progammes to create awarenedd on glaucoma among the public and to enable them to access the available eye care services.
- To initiate research to investigate issues concerned with causes, diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma.
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