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An Eye For Art

An All India Art Exhibition is planned at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi between October 16 and October 29, 2004, to raise funds for Sankara Nethralaya Corpus Fund for Community Ophthalmology. For details contact donation@sankaranethralya.org.

SN at Chennai Railway Station

Sankara Nethralaya is proud to announce yet another initiative in pursuit of its goal to create a strong ophthalmic India. Sankara Nethralaya is setting up a patient information center at Chennai's Central Railway Station. The information center will be inaugurated on July 26, 2004 by Mr. V. Anand, General Manager, Southern Railways. The objective of this center is to share relevant and effective information on the factors that affect eye sight or impair vision, educate people on eye donation and build awareness towards eliminating needless blindness. The information center will have display material addressing the above and brochures for distribution to the public.

Clinical Epidemiology Center

Sankara Nethralaya's Dr. R. R. Sudhir has been selected by John Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA to pursue a MPH/ PHO – Master of Public Health/ Public Health Ophthalmology – Clinical Epidemiology degree from July 2004 for a period of 11 months. After the completion of his course, he will return to Chennai to set up a Clinical Epidemiology Center at Sankara Nethralaya.

Major Milestones

Did you know that nearly 275,000 surgeries have been performed by our consultants, several of whom are nationally reputed in their field of specialization? Six of our senior consultants have done more than 10,000 surgeries each and six other consultants have done more than 5,000 surgeries each. These are excellent milestones in their professional career.

In order to congratulate them and to show our appreciation and gratitude for their selfless service in Sankara Nethralaya, a function has been organized on July 29, 2004 (Thursday) when each of these consultants will be honoured with an award. Shri Cho S. Ramaswamy, the well-known thespian and journalism will be the Chief Guest at the function.

The consultants who have performed over 10,000 surgeries are: Dr. L. Gopal, Dr. L. Vijaya, Dr. G. Sitalakshmi, Dr. Tarun Sharma, Dr. Prema Padmanabhan and Dr. K. Ravishankar. The consultants who have performed over 5,000 surgeries are: Dr. Mahesh P. Shanmugam, Dr. Sheila John, Dr. B. Shantha, Dr. T. S. Surendran, Dr. Pramod Bhende and Dr. Sudha K. Ganesh. We congratulate them all and are proud of their achievement.