Medical Eye Care
This includes medical (ophthalmic) treatment and surgery for eye diseases and disorders, optometric treatment and eyeglass prescriptions, and public health efforts to control the spread of communicable eye diseases. To date, most such support has gone to developing world programs.
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Case Study Highlights
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Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
With a four-year grant of $680,000, Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, an eye care system including hospitals, satellite clinics, and vision centers in the Uttar Pradesh region of India, set out to improve and expand eye care services to the surrounding areas in need.
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LV Prasad Eye Institute
Leveraging the support of a two-year grant of $180,620, the LV Prasad (LVP) Eye Institute in Southern India, a world-class eye care system providing services ranging from basic primary eye care to the most advanced specialized eye services, initiated an effort to upgrade 20 vision centers by providing them with IT-enabled ophthalmic equipment.
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Seva Foundation
In January 2017, the Fund approved a three-year grant of $428,937 to the Seva Foundation, to help expand the capacity of two mentor eye clinics in Latin America-- Visualiza Eye Clinic in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and Divino Nino Jesus (DNJ) Eye Clinic in Lima, Peru-- to train Allied Ophthalmic Personnel (AOPs) through strengthened curricula.
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Fred Hollows Foundation USA
In January 2020, the Fund approved a 12-month grant of $50,000 to the Fred Hollows Foundation to support the provision of free or subsidized cataract surgeries for 500 patients in the Greater Hanoi, Vietnam area by Alina Vision, a social enterprise eye hospital dedicated to reducing preventable blindness and visual impairment in Vietnam.