Hyderabad: L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is set to launch a door-to-door community screening project in Maheshwaram Mandal of Ranga Reddy District under the CSR initiative of Siemens Healthineers, India. Under the project ‘Reaching out with Innovative Services for Eyecare (RISE)’, 50,000 people will be screened for eye ailments. The project would be inaugurated on 28 July 2022 at LVPEI’s Maheshwaram Vision Centre (Primary Eye Care Centre) by Smt P Sabitha Indra Reddy, Hon’ble Minister for Education, Government of Telangana.
Access to good quality eye health services globally is a key enabler to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This can be achieved by strengthening and ensuring Universal Eye Health coverage for all. L V Prasad Eye Institute, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, is dedicatedly working towards this. The project ‘RISE’ fulfils the goals set for Universal Eye Health coverage.
Under this project, the focus will be on – making quality eye care services accessible and affordable to the population of Maheshwaram Mandal through door-to-door eye screening programs and optimally utilizing technology for addressing their vision problems. There will be a special focus on the vulnerable population – the elderly, women, and children. Those identified with eye problems will be referred to LVPEI’s Vision Centre (Primary Eye Care Centre) in Maheshwaram for a comprehensive eye examination. Spectacles will be dispensed for correction of refractive errors. Those in need of surgical intervention for cataract will be referred to LVPEI’s Secondary Eye Care Centre in Kothur in Ranga Reddy District. Low vision rehabilitation services will also be provided. All these services will be provided at no cost to the patients, without compromising the quality of care.
Established in 1987, L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Prevention of Blindness, is a comprehensive eye health facility. The Institute has ten functional arms to its areas of operations: Clinical Services, Education, Research, Vision Rehabilitation, Rural and Community Eye Health, Eye Banking, Advocacy and Policy Planning, Capacity Building, Innovation and Product Development. The LVPEI Eye Care Network has 260+ Centres spread across the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Karnataka in India. The institute’s mission is to provide equitable and quality eye care to all sections of society. The LVPEI’s five-tier ‘Eye Health Pyramid’ model covering all sections of society right from the villages to the city, provides high quality and comprehensive – prevention, curative and rehabilitation – eye care to all. It has served over 34.14 million (3 crore 41 lakh people), with more than 50% of them entirely free of cost, irrespective of the complexity of care needed.
