64 Promoting community eye health care through the LVPEI centers Continuing with our focus on providing basic eye health care to the underprivileged and promoting community health, we inaugurated the latest LVPEI Sai Life Sciences Eye center at Alwal in Hyderabad, India in January 2021. The center is already offering full-fledged services to the local communities in Alwal and Shamirpet and more than 10,000 patients have been treated including more than 800 patients from economically underprivileged backgrounds. 500,000 Local population catered to 30,000 Capacity of outpatients that can be handled per year 3,000 Capacity for surgeries per year The center caters to both paying and non-paying patients, where patients are charged according to their ability to pay, in a three-tier fee structure that cross subsidizes the patients who cannot afford to pay while ensuring equitable quality of services to all. Additional community services are provided in the form of home care for the elderly and through school screening programs. The Centre has programs built around 3 core areas Prevention Treatment Through early screening Diagnosis with medical and surgical treatment Rehabilitation Services to support the visually impaired
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