Sankara Nethralaya News
Sankara Nethralaya intensifies assault on cataract caused blindness
As a part of its continuing efforts against cataract and other debilitating eye ailments, the Sankara Nethralaya in collaboration with the IIT-Madras launched a strategic offensive against the rising instance of cataract caused blindness through a jointly developed ‘Mobile eye surgical unit’. This first of its kind operation theatre on wheels is intended primarily to […]
SN Alumni Academic Meet 2011
There is an old pun that goes that ‘there is no stronger tie than the ‘old school tie’ which simply means that we make our strongest bonds during our student years. The huge turnout of 160 ophthalmologists at the SN Alumni Academic meeting held at the Sri VD Swami Auditorium, SN only added credence to […]
Vision screening for orphanage children
Whether it’s checking for refractive errors or raising awareness about eye care, the Elite School of Optometry has always considered children as its high priority group. In the year 2010 alone, the ESO conducted vision screening for 47,999 people of whom 33482 were children. Eye ailments in children Refractive errors and Squint, detected and treated […]
VIBS training programme evokes enthusiastic response
The hands on summer training programme conducted by the Vidyasagar Institute of Bio Medical Sciences at the Medical Research Foundation between 13th May and 10th June 2011 gave participating students the much needed, real-time and beyond the classroom insight into their subjects of specialization. A total of 9 trainee students from colleges across the State […]
Transmit classroom lectures using Knowledge Network
The shortage of faculty for medical colleges can be addressed by using the extensive coverage of the National Knowledge Network to transmit classroom lectures, S.S. Badrinath, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya, has said. The institution had suggested to the NKN that its network be used to transmit the goings on in its post-graduate classes to benefit […]
LASIK centre in Kolkata
Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai, has opened LASIK (laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis) centre in the city for undertaking refractive eye surgery, according to a press release. Read more…
Branch at Kolkata renamed Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya
The Aditya Birla Group and Sankara Nethralaya have joined hands to augment eye care service delivery in India. Sankara Nethralaya’s eye hospital at Kolkata has been renamed Aditya Birla Sankara Nethralaya. Speaking at the renaming function on April 29, 2011, Chairman Emeritus, Sankara Nethralaya, Dr. S S Badrinath said, “For an NGO like us to […]
Remembering & honoring friends of Sankara Nethralaya
An old lady donating her savings to a cause rather than to the temple at Tirupathi; the numeorus benefit concerts rendered by the legendary MS Subbulakshmi in aid of Sankara Nethralaya; a bereaved father setting up an institute at Sankara Nethralaya in memory of his son … these and many more acts of generosity that […]
62nd Republic Day celebrations at SN
The tenets of democracy were recalled by the former Chief Election Commissioner, Shri. TS Krishnamurthy, at the 62nd Republic day celebrations at Sankara Nethralaya on January 26, 2011. Describing democracy as an “intellectually provocative and emotionally attractive” concept and one which strives to provide “maximum happiness to maximum people,” chief guest Shri. Krishnamurthy said it […]
Witnessing the transformation in Oculoplasty
A two-day international Oculofacial, Reconstructive and Aesthetics conference was organised by Sankara Nethralaya from January 16-17, 2011. Titled ‘Chrysalis 2011’, the conference sought to explore the transformation that the field of Oculofacial Reconstructive and Aesthetics has witnessed in recent times. Experts from countries like USA, France, United Kingdom, Singapore and Indian cities like Chennai, New […]