Aravind eye care system was started in 1976 in India by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and the main idea was to get rid of blindness which had become very rampant in India. At the start of the eye care center, the clinic has only 11 beds and by the end of the first year, the clinic had gotten 23 more beds that would be used to serve the patients who required eye treatment (Prahalad 2010, p. 16).
One of the core principles of Aravind eye care clinic was to provide eye care treatment to patients who could not afford to pay more than they could eye just to get treatment in other clinics. In most cases, Aravind clinic provided free treatment to the patients who could be able to raise enough money to pay for their treatment and this in turn earned Aravind eye clinic a lot of respect to become one of the biggest eye care centers in the world today (Schwab 2007, p. 10).
India is one of the poorest countries in the world today. This means that, most of the residents of this country are unable to get access to quality health care services due to the pricing by which I mean that considering that the price of getting quality is high, then it will mean that most of the residents of this country will not be able to pay for it due to the low living standards. In addition to that, India has one of the highest blindness prevalence in the world according to a report that was released by the World Health Organization (WHO) that stated that most of the Indians are unable to pay for their eye treatment due to poor living standards that the country has.
This prompted the rise of Aravind Eye Care clinic which had an aim of getting rid of this vice that was known as blindness. In a bid to be able to do this, the founders of Aravind Eye Care Clinic came up with the idea of providing the residents with quality eye care services for as little as no money. This in turn prompted people to become more and more aware of the clinic and by the end of the first five years, it had performed more than 275,000 eye surgeries and had opened more than five branches in the provinces in India (Hartigan 2008, p. 15).
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[...] Aravind eye care system Outline 1. Introduction 2. Thesis Statement 3. Question Question Question Question Question References Aravind Eye Care System 1. Introduction Aravind eye care system was started in 1976 in India by Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy and the main idea was to get rid of blindness which had become very rampant in India. At the start of the eye care centre, the clinic has only 11 beds and by the end of the first year, the clinic had gotten 23 more beds that would be used to serve the patients who required eye treatment (Prahalad 2010, p. [...]
[...] The other costs included; Aravind Eye Care Clinic had to buy lunch for the patients so as to able to keep them even where it came to lunch time. In addition to that, the doctors and staff had to travel from the camps back to the hospitals which meant that another extra cost had to be incurred by Aravind Eye Care Clinic in a bid to trying to get the patients. On the other hand, Aravind Eye Care Clinic had to provide boarding and lodging for the doctors and staff in a bid to getting them ready to work in the camps the following day. [...]
[...] This prompted the rise of Aravind Eye Care clinic which had an aim of getting rid of this vice that was known as blindness. In a bid to be able to do this, the founders of Aravind Eye Care Clinic came up with the idea of providing the residents with quality eye care services for as little as no money. This in turn prompted people to become more and more aware of the clinic and by the end of the first five years, it had performed more than 275,000 eye surgeries and had opened more than five branches in the provinces in India (Hartigan 2008, p. [...]
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