Sankara Nethralaya, a Chennai-based hospital that offers cutting edge eye treatment to people and follows a pay or free model, is worth emulating in the state.
The seed capital for starting the trust-run hospital was given by Gujarati philanthropist C U Shah.
Director of research of Sankara Nethralaya Gopal Ligam said that the hospital has successfully modeled its economics around supplementing the revenue generated with generous donations from people of the country.
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