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The students of Anna University's Telehealth Technology Department visited Sankara Nethralaya on 24th December 2005 for a one-day training session on Teleophthalmology. The Telehealth Technology Course is a joint effort of Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and the Anna University, Chennai.
The Tamil Nadu Governor Mr. Surjit Singh Barnala felicitated Dr. S.S. Badrinath - Chairman, Sankara Nethralaya, for his exemplary service rendered over the past twenty-seven years in the area of eye care at the Annual Conference of Representatives of the District and Local Centres of St. John Ambulance of Tamil Nadu on 24th December 2005. The Governor praised Dr. Badrinath for his untiring efforts in the field of medicine and declared that Chennai was brought to limelight through Sankara Nethralaya. The function was graced by Mr. N. Vittal former Central Vigilence Commissioner and the President of Indian Red Cross Society Ms. Sarojini Varadappan.
For more details please read http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/26/stories/2005122616370200.htm
From Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust, Inc. board member Shankar Iyer:
Nithya and our children Anita, Sanjay & Sainath join me in wishing you and all yours a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year - a year that is suffused with the Divine Love and Grace of BhagavAn Shri Satya SAI BABA, making every moment of the year His Divine present. We wish and pray for you, as you are an important part of our lives. Thank you for being a part of our circle of nearest & dearest.
The advent of a New Year marks important beginnings and transitions. In this spirit, I appeal to your noble selves - for making a commitment to continue to support the Sankara Nethralaya Ophthalmic Mission Trust in its service to the needy visually impaired & blind in India.
http://www.omtrust.org/index.html
http://www.sankaranethralaya.org/ (to learn more about the world-renowned Sankara Nethralaya, one of Asia's premier charitable ophthalmic care institutions)
Your donations - of endowed surgeries and monthly contributions - make it possible to save the vision of thousands who may otherwise go blind for lack of timely diagnosis and treatment. Every $50/- you donate - and that is tax-deductible - goes to treat another poor human. Every $500/- you donate - and that too is tax-deductible - endows a free surgery for a poor fellowman, performed every year on a day that is very special to you: what a noble way to mark an anniversary, a birthday or any other day that is special to you.
As the year draws to its end, I request you to take the following actions - do, be and tell - as BhagavAn SAI urges:
DO: please make a tax-deductible donation to the Sankara Nethralaya Ophthalmic Mission Trust, Inc., to endow one or more free surgeries on your special day - performed year after year. You can mail the donation check to our Treasurer Shri S. V. Acharya at:
SN Ophthalmic Mission Trust, Inc.,
14613 Pommel Drive,
Rockville, MD 20850
OR mail your check to me, at: 3309 Rocky Mount Road, Fairfax VA 22031-3023
DO: please make a monthly recurring donation - of $50, $75, $100 ... or any amount you can; you can make these tax-deductible donations at our website here:
https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=108
As a donor supporting our noble cause, please BE an active ambassador; please TELL your friends and relatives about this noble cause, and invite them to join you, in this service to the poor visually impaired & blind. If every one brings the message home to even a few friends and relatives and urges them to join this cause, we will have a ground-swell of support.
As always, my thanks in advance for your continued loving support, and now, for your enhanced noble resolve to increase your commitment to this cause.
Love, best wishes and warmest regards. SvAmi SharaNam, SAIRAM.
Shankar A. Iyer
December 23, 2005
A team of doctors deputed by the Royal Government of Bhutan's Ministry of Health visited Sankara Nethralaya on Wednesday the 14th of December 2005 to strengthen and build a strong relationship between Nethralaya and Bhutanese Hospitals for the benefit of future patients from Bhutan. The team in the above picture along with Col. Raghavan, Mr. Murali and Mr. Shivaraman P.R.O. at the Teleophthalmology department.
Sankara Nethralaya participated in the International Continuing Medical Education Programme organised by the Department of Ophthalmology, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, under the auspices of Oman Medical Specialty Board, SQU College of Medicine and the Oman Ministry of Health through Video Conferencing on 8th December 2005 at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai.
The main topic selected was ' Behcet's Disease Uveitis - 1'. The speakers were Dr. J Robert Kalden from Erlangen who spoke on Vasculitis, Dr. A Kampik from Munich, Dr. Manfred Zierhut from Tubingen, Dr. Franz Grehn from Wurzburg besides speakers from the Oman University and the Ministry of Health.
The other topics covered were 1. Indications for vitrectomy, 2. Medical treatment of M Behcets, 3. Extinct VEP in Behcets following vitrectomy, 4. New developments in the medical treatment of Behcet's and 5. Curative surgery for complications of uncontrolled Uveitis.
Ms. Alessandra Gava and Mr. Federico Donega an Italian couple residing in Chennai, visited Sankara Nethralaya in February 2005 when Ms. Gava needed ophthalmic care and has been a patient of Dr. Tarun Sharma since then.
They heaved a sigh of relief when their personal doctor in Italy asked Gava to continue with her treatment and not to return to Italy when he was informed that they were obtaining treatment at Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai.
They were so very impressed with the facilities and treatment obtained and decided to not only make a donation but took necessary materials and literatures to speak about Sankara Nethralaya back home.
Ms. Alessandra Gava and Mr. Federico Donega seen in the above picture with our Chairman Dr. S.S. Badrinath.
Prof. Peter G Watson, Chairman of the assessment committe of the International Council of Ophthalmology has great pleasure to inform that the International Council has appointed Dr. Lingam Gopal of Sankara Nethralaya as an International Scholar in recognition of his exceptionally high score in the Clinical Sciences Assessment.
Mr. Munusamy a 65 year old Tonga Wala, lives in Ambattur. He was the main earning member of his family. Unfortunately he had to give up his job on account of deteriorating vision. The family was in deep crisis as the earnings declined. Sankara Nethralaya conducted an eye camp in his locality through the assistance rendered by the local NGO and Mr. Munusamy attended this camp. |
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The surgery was performed successfully and Munuswamy's vision was restored. After the surgery, he was prescribed a pair of spectacles which was also provided free of cost by Sankara Nethralaya besides the surgery. He and his family are thankful to God for the timely help from the donors who made this surgery possible for poor and needy people like him. | |
Ever since Sankara Nethralaya went into an agreement with Mauritius government way back in February 2001, the relationship continues to flourish till date. In order to provide plus to our Mauritius patients’, Sankara Nethralaya has taken several steps with a singular objective: to make these patients feel always at home, though they are thousand miles away from home!
The Hon'ble Minister for Health - Government of Mauritius, Mr. Fagoo along with Mr. Raman the Consul General of Mauritius in India visited Sankara Nethralaya on 2nd December 2005 and interacted with the Mauritius patients and was taken on a conducted tour of the Hospital. Seen in the above picture along with our Chairman Dr. S.S. Badrinath, Dr. Lingam Gopal and Chief Executive Officer Dr. K. Ravishankar in discussion along with Mr. A. Krishnan - General Manager, Mr. T. Rathinam - Dy. General Manager and Mr. Sivaraman - P.R.O.
The second phase of the 16th batch of Sir Ratan Tata fellowship programme at Sankara Nethralaya successfully concluded with nine fellows obtaining two months of training in basic and advanced cataract surgeries at Jaslok Community Ophthalmic Center. Certificates were presented to the candidates on 30th November 2005.
