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Doctor conferred outstanding service award in Sydney

Reaping smiles:C.A.Nelson Jesudasan, (right), Director of Joseph Eye Hospital, being greeted by Frank J. Martin, president of the APAO, in Sydney recently.

TIRUCHI: Director and Medical Superintendent of Joseph Eye Hospital, C.A.Nelson Jesudasan was conferred with the ‘Outstanding Service in Prevention of Blindness Award' by the Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) at a convention in Sydney recently.

Dr.Jesudasan is among the 42 awardees chosen by the APAO, a federation of national ophthalmology societies promoting ophthalmology and visual sciences to preserve and protect vision of people in Asia-Pacific region. Frank J.Martin, President of the Association presented the awards. The conference was attended by 4,000 eye care professionals from 67 countries, according to a release issued by the hospital on Thursday.

Dr. Jesudasan is the second Indian after Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane, Dean, Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Hospital, Mumbai to receive the award. Other eminent eye care professionals honoured by the Academy under various categories in the past include Govindappa Venkataswamy, founder, Aravind Eye Hospital; S.S. Badrinath, founder, Sankara Nethralya and Gullapalli Nag Rao, founder, LV Prasad Eye Institute.

The tertiary eye care hospital founded by Joseph Gnanadhickam in 1934 prides itself in providing affordable eye care services through the super speciality hospital and peripheral units in 14 districts. Various community-level programmes and rehabilitation services for rural blind fall in the ambit of the hospital's services. The hospital screens around 2.5 lakh patients every year.

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