Pushpagiri Eye Institute (PVRI)
Pushpagiri Eye Institute (PVRI)
Not-for-profit
Year launched: 2004Approach
Target geography
Target Population
Target income level
- Bottom 20%
- Lower-middle income (20-40%)
- Middle-income (40-60%)
- Higher middle-income (60-80%)
- High-income (80-100%)
Health focus
- Eye care
CHMI PLUS Status
Profile Completeness Rating
Monitoring & Evaluation Reporting
Summary
Pushpagiri Eye Institute operates two ‘Super Specialty Hospitals’ in India, treating various forms of preventable eye diseases at full cost for those who can pay and at a subsidized cost for those who cannot. It also runs various community screening and outreach programs.Program goals
Pushpagiri Eye Institute is dedicated to contributing towards the eradication of preventable blindness by providing appropriate and compassionate high quality Specialty Eye Care for all and especially to those who cannot afford it.
Key program components
Pushpagiri Eye Institute (PVRI) launched in 2004 to provide high quality eye care to all who are in need regardless of their financial background, with a special focus on treating diabetic blindness, childhood blindness, and corneal blindness. It now runs two 'Super Specialty Hospitals in Secunderabad and Vizianagaram, India, with two more facilities proposed.
PVRI also organizes outreach clinics (currently, approximately 10 per month), mobile screening units, and treatment camps in rural areas throughout the region, as well as provides in-house care. Targeting agricultural workers and students in particular, PVRI provides fee-based services as well as serving all low-income patients. The latter are either treated for free or covered through the Sri Rajiv Aarogyasri scheme of the Government of Andhra Pradesh. PVRI is the only eye care facility in the state accredited to provide vision care to below the poverty line (BPL) Aarogyasri members.
PVRI finally organizes educational fellowships for interested specialists and surgeons, various clinical research projects and presentations, and Madhava Netra Nidhi, an eye bank established in 2007 is member of Eye Bank Association of India. These additional programs are further extensions of PVRI's dedication to the eradication of preventable blindness for all.