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July 11, 2024
- 24 Pinehurst Ave, Glenmore Park, NSW, Australia, 2745
- +612 47226970
- wecare@ici.org.au
Eye Openers is a program providing eye and medical care to the poor and needy in rural India in a small town called Payakaraopeta, located in the Visag District in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Within a 50km radius of Payakaraopeta there are 150 smaller villages with a total population of around 500,000. Most of these people are classed as poor and underprivileged.
In the area immediately beyond this, there are a further 1,000,000 people with minimal or no access to eye and medical services. It is these people who are too poor to access medical care that Eye Openers serves.
The Eye Openers Ophthalmology Program was set up in 2002 by Dr Kota Kumar, a well respected Indian and western trained ophthalmologist. Prior to setting up Eye Openers, Dr Kumar worked as a mission eye doctor for 18 years in rural India. Dr Kumar works with Dr Bhaskar, an ophthalmologist who performs most of the cataract surgeries.
Eye Openers aims to provide 2000 sight restoring cataract operations every year to the very poor people in our catchment area. An additional 1500 other eye operations are also performed per year.
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24 Pinehurst Ave, Glenmore Park, NSW, Australia, 2745
+612 47226970
wecare@ici.org.au
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