News and notices. April 22, 2014

The Aravind model of high-volume cataract services

Registration in process at an Aravind eye camp. LAICO
Registration in process at an Aravind eye camp. LAICO

This article from our current issue discusses how Aravind Eye Care System built its high patient volume and kept the costs low to provide efficient, good quality and affordable eye care. It also considers how the model must to be adapted for other countries and settings in ways relevant to the local demographic, social-economic and cultural realities.

Efficient high-volume cataract services: the Aravind model