IN EXPANSION MODE: Sankara Eye Hopsital in Guntur

GUNTUR: Sankara Eye Hospitals being managed by the Coimbatore-based Sri Kanchi Kama Koti Medical Trust will now be called Sankara Eye Care Institutions India.

The trust has three full-fledged hospitals at Coimbatore, Krishna Koil (near Madurai) and Guntur. By 2020, it proposes to have one hospital in each State. Work is apace at its new hospitals at Shimoga, Bangalore and Anand in Gujarat, which will be completed by the year-end.

New facilities

The facility in Guntur will have additional 100 beds by February 2008 along with a new operation theatre with five microscopes and 10 operation tables exclusively for "non-paying" patients, who get operated for cataract as part of charity services of the trust.

The existing six tables would be dedicated to "paying" patients, hospital Chief Executive Officer M.R. Mohan Chander told The Hindu .

From January this year, the hospital successfully completed 3,000 operations, including some 500 paid cases. This had taken the total number of free operations done to 30,000. Some 3,000 paid operations were also performed.

New consultation rooms and waiting areas for patients and accompanying attendants would be added to the existing one. The hospital, on an average, examines some 150 patients a day in the outpatient wards, which was likely to go up by another 100 by next year.

Campaign

By the time the construction of additional buildings was completed in Guntur, an eye bank would be operational with facilities for grafting of cornea.

The hospital proposes to launch a campaign for collection of eyes from donors in its service area in Guntur, Krishna and Prakasam districts before the eye bank was commissioned.

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