LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) completes its one hundredth corneal transplant in rural centre eye care network.
The transplant changed into carried out last week at its Mudhole secondary eye centre. "This success is an illustration of a "highway not ever travelled,'' Gullapalli N Rao, Founder and Chairman, LV Prasad Eye Institute mentioned in a free up.
"From a condition when i was told to overlook corneal transplantation because it is an impossibility in India basically 32 years in the past when we headquartered the LVPEI, we now have now done this staggering feat," Rao added.
The adventure of providing advanced surgical care correct at the doorsteps of rural communities started in March 2016 with the primary corneal transplant being carried out at the Institute's Dhulipalla secondary eye centre in Guntur District.
In a span of three years, the secondary centre networks in Mudhole (Nirmal district), Dhullipalla (Guntur district), Venkatachalam (Nellore district) and Paloncha (Bhadradri Kothagudem district) have mutually performed 100 corneal transplants.
In 2015, LVPEI had become the first single institute in the world to achieve 20,000 corneal transplants throughout its community.
India is home to half of the realm's blind population. Out of the 15 million blind americans within the nation, 6.eight million are victims of corneal blindness and this quantity is expected to rise to 10.6 million by way of 2020. In India, where poverty remains common, corneal blindness is most commonly found in underprivileged and underserved population.
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