This paper is published in Volume-5, Issue-2, 2019
Area
Social Entrepreneurship
Author
Nripendra Mishra, Anand Prem Rajan
Org/Univ
Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India
Pub. Date
06 April, 2019
Paper ID
V5I2-1776
Publisher
Keywords
Case study, Affordable eye care, Aravind Hospitals

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Nripendra Mishra, Anand Prem Rajan. Affordable eye care services: A case study on Aravind Eye Hospitals, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Nripendra Mishra, Anand Prem Rajan (2019). Affordable eye care services: A case study on Aravind Eye Hospitals. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 5(2) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Nripendra Mishra, Anand Prem Rajan. "Affordable eye care services: A case study on Aravind Eye Hospitals." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 5.2 (2019). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

With the goal of giving affordable eye care services to a nation which has around 20 million blind citizens and 80% of it because of curable cataracts, at 58 years old, Dr. V. Begun, the Aravind Eye Hospital. Famously known as the McDonald's of cataract surgery, with a bed quantity of in excess of 4000 beds and serving 0.25 million patients consistently, this is one of the world's biggest eye care frameworks cooking generally to the poor populace. Destitute individuals with cataract can recover their visual perception at a cost as low as $40 or even free, on the off chance that they can't manage. It was exhibited by this non-benefit framework that it is for all intents and purposes conceivable to consolidate high quality, low cost, world scale, and maintainability. It has been viewed as one of a kind plan of action by numerous organizations and has demonstrated that care given at low cost can likewise yield maintainability and even gainfulness. Aravind framework's effective assembling unit, Aurolab, has created 6%-7% of the lowcost focal points worldwide in 2002, which were sold in excess of 100 nations. This Organization has been a wellspring of contextual investigations to national, however International offices too.