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Yeddyurappa to open Sankara Eye Hospital today

The Sankara Eye Hospital in Shimoga

SHIMOGA: Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa will inaugurate the Sankara Eye Hospital and Jaslok Community Eye Care Centre here on Sunday. Jayendra Saraswathi Swamiji of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham will be present.

Built on a five-acre campus, the hospital has sub-speciality clinics in cataract, glaucoma, cornea and refractive surgery, vitreo retina, occuloplasty and paediatric ophthalmogy.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees S.V. Balasubramaniam said on Saturday that it was the fifth hospital of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust. The next hospital of the trust would be opened at Anand in Gujarat on October 19, he said.

The trust would develop eight hospitals by the end of 2008, setting the target of taking the total number of hospitals to 20 by 2020, he said.

Founder and Managing Trustee R.V. Ramani said that the hospital was committed to extending eye care facility to poor people in rural areas. He said that the weekly rural outreach eye check-up camps would be organised in the villages of Shimoga district and in the north Karnataka region.

Dr. Ramani said that facilities such as transportation, lodging, food, investigations, surgeries, medicines and post-operative care would be provided free of cost to poor patients.He said that under the “Gift of Vision” rural outreach programme, the hospital aimed at performing 25,000 surgeries free of cost every year on deserving poor patients from villages. He said that of the 225 beds, 200 would be reserved for poor patients.

The Sankara Eye Bank would be opened shortly at the hospital.

Dr. Ramani said that the hospital had been built with the help of donations by individuals, families, and institutions in India and abroad.

Trustee Narendra Bhat said that the hospital, built at a cost of Rs. 14 crore, would offer quality treatment.

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