Sankara Nethralaya News

Concern and Compassion come calling from across the globe

We are all familiar with the dictum ‘Do your best and God will take care of the rest” good acts after all seldom go unnoticed. It was such devoted, sincere and selfless efforts by the members of Sankara Nethralaya Ophthalmic Mission Trust, USA towards raising funds to light up lives in their home country and […]

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The Sankara Nethralaya Academy’s certificate course in Hospital Management – a professionally organized course for professionals.

My husband being an alumnus of Sankara Nethralaya, we keep getting mailers giving information on various happenings in the institution.  It was one such mailer informing about a certificate course in hospital management that drew my attention. I wanted to get some idea about what was involved in managing a hospital and the fact that […]

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Mobile surgical bus takes quality eye care to a remote pocket

The Sankara Nethralaya mobile surgical bus engineered to take top quality eye care to the most inaccessible regions, especially regions not served by a health care facility in the neighbourhood received a call to fulfill its avowed mission when the Sankara Nethralaya Community services team decided to reach out quality eye care to ‘Chunampet’ a […]

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A stalwart makes a most touching and generous gesture to his dream institution

Sankara Nethralaya and its associate institutions, it would seem have a magical quality about them, traveling back in time and taking a close look at their inception and growth one is truly amazed by the magic which drew the right people into their fold to make the dream and passion of the young vitreo retinal […]

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Sankara Nethralaya makes its presence in the city of prosperity

Tamil New Year’s Day falling on 14th April 2013 marked the culmination of a Special Economic Zone’s dream to bring a human touch to its endeavour in bringing about a world class industrial facility and hub and marked yet another mile stone in the journey of a service oriented eye care institution towards providing quality […]

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The Elite School of Optometry captures the spirit of World Optometry Day

World Optometry Day has always been an occasion for the Elite School of Optometry (ESO-run by Sankara Nethralaya in collaboration with Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani) to demonstrate its concern care for society. Right from its early days, ESO has taken small steps to create awareness about eye care among the public, through […]

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Certificate Awarding Function to Sankara Nethralaya Employees on 05-04-2013

Welcoming the Chief guest, Honourable members from the DG Vaishnav College,  awardees, the Members of Medical Research Foundation, Vision Research Foundation and the Sankara Nethralaya family, Ms.Sudha Mohan, Sr.Manager, HR, aptly quoted William Butler Yeats who said “Education is not filling a pail, but the lighting of fire”, to ignite the passion of learning and […]

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Small Acts of Kindness – 2013

When a good-natured notion transforms into a valiant process, it is impossible to match. When a thoughtful idea turns into an insightful project, it is impossible to fathom. When a good intention becomes a remarkable action, it is indeed impossible to describe. It was exactly this that was done during the “Small Acts of Kindness-2013” […]

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The XII Dr E Vaithilingam Memorial Scientific session

The Elite School of Optometry (ESO) an educational arm of Sankara Nethralaya has been encouraging optometry research in India since its inception. A critical initiative of the ESO in this direction is the holding of the Annual Conference in Vision Science and Optometry which has over the years acquired the status of a major professional […]

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Sankara Nethralaya conducts an intensive and informative workshop on Contact lens and systems

The Contact lens department at Sankara Nethralaya conducted an in-depth workshop on the usage and impact of Contact lens. The workshop titled “Care, Clean and Comply to continue successful contact lens wear” was aimed at educating Contact lens practitioners on every aspect of Contact lens usage including tear biochemistry, microbiology and pharmacology of solutions and […]

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