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The L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) is an eye-care network, established by Dr. Gullapalli Nageswara Rao, an
ophthalmologist Ophthalmology (, ) is the branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and surgery of eye diseases and disorders. An ophthalmologist is a physician who undergoes subspecialty training in medical and surgical eye care. Following a ...
, at
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, in 1986. It is a
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, multi-campus,
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institution. With more than 275 eye-care centres in India, it is the largest eye-care network in the world. LVPEI is a
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collaborating centre, and an affiliate hospital of
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. It is the first eye hospital to be accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH).


Establishment

Established in 1986, the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness, is a comprehensive eye health facility. The institute operates through ten active arms: Clinical Services, Education, Research, Vision Rehabilitation, Rural and Community Eye Health, Eye Banking, Advocacy and Policy Planning, Capacity Building, Innovation, and Product Development. LVPEI is managed by two not-for-profit entities: the Hyderabad Eye Institute (HEI) and the Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation (HERF). Before the institute was established, the renowned Indian filmmaker Sri Akkineni Lakshmi Vara Prasad Rao, popularly known as L V Prasad, decided to invest a portion of the profits from his blockbuster film ''
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'' towards a noble cause. He donated one crore rupees and five acres of land in order to establish the state-of-the-art eye institute. In recognition of this generous gesture, the institute's board named the facility in his honor. Over the years, his family has continued to support the institute's work. His son, Mr Ramesh Prasad, managing director of Prasad Film
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, is a founder trustee of LVPEI and is the longest serving member of the Hyderabad Eye Institute's governing board, along with Dr Rao. It has maintained its tradition of naming its centres and facilities after its benefactors. Among its notable benefactors and donors are several corporate such as
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, NALCO.


Active areas of operation


Clinical Services

LVPEI has served nearly 34.14 million (3.4 crore) people, with over 50% of them entirely free of cost, irrespective of the complexity of care needed, done over 1.93 million surgeries, trained over 55,000
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s and
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s. The institute offers rehabilitation services for persons with visually impairment, and in 2018 it inaugurated a 'Special Needs Vision Clinic' to provide eye care to children with developmental delays and disabilities.


Education and Research

Scientists from L V Prasad Eye Institute are listed amongst the world's top 2% by
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. It is an affiliate hospital of
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.It has academic and research linkages with
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, GITAM,
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.


Centers

LVPEI network has 275 eye-care centres across the states of
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Telangana Telangana is a States and union territories of India, state in India situated in the Southern India, south-central part of the Indian subcontinent on the high Deccan Plateau. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ele ...
and
Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (ISO 15919, ISO: , , AP) is a States and union territories of India, state on the East Coast of India, east coast of southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, seventh-largest state and th ...
: * Main center in Banjara Hills, named after Kallam Anji Reddy the founder of Dr.Reddy Labs. * 3 tertiary centers in Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar and Vijayawada. * 26 secondary centers * 245 primary care centers The secondary and primary care centers provide medical facilities to the remotest rural areas of the country.


Eye bank

As of 2020, LVPEI Eye Bank Network has been performing over 2,000 corneal transplant surgeries every year. As of February 2023, total corneas collected were 1,19,279 and over 69,964 corneal transplant surgeries have been performed at the institute, which may be the highest at a single institute anywhere in the world. The RIEB set up the
Hyderabad Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
Cornea Preservation Medium Centre which uses a McKarey Kauffman (MK) Medium.


Awards

* Greenberg Prize – End Blindness 2020 *Sarojini Triloknath National Award 2020


See also

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References

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