LV PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE (LVPEI)
L V Prasad Eye Institute is a world-class eye hospital, research institute, and training centre located in Hyderabad, India.
Its mission is to provide excellent and equitable eye care to all in a caring and compassionate manner.
The Institute's six areas of focus are:
- comprehensive patient care
- sight enhancement and low vision rehabilitation
- community eye health
- clinical research
- education and training programmes
- product development.
LVPEI is one of the few institutes with an exclusive facility for visually impaired children, including newborns and infants. Its Vision Rehabilitation Centre, the first of its kind in Asia, trains children and adults with incurable low vision in the use of low-cost optical and non-optical visual aids.
Development of human resources is imperative for developing countries. LVPEI is an acclaimed education center for eye care personnel at all levels - post-doctoral ophthalmology fellows and practicing ophthalmologists, as well as optometrists, ophthalmic technicians, nurses, bio-medical technicians and eye care administrators.
LVPEI also has a state-of-the-art eye bank which collects, stores and distributes donor corneas for transplantation and research. In addition, LVPEI has initiated the development of several affordable eye care products, such as preservation medium for corneal tissues and rehabilitation devices for low vision patients.
In the 20 years since the Institute's establishment it has provided outpatient services to over 2 million people and surgical care to over 250,000 patients - almost 50 percent of them receiving services free of charge. In addition, LVPEI has trained over 10,000 doctors and para-medical personnel from India and abroad, and made over 1700 research presentations at national and international meetings.
Fundamental to LVPEI efforts is the generous support received from individuals, institutions and the eye care industry, from all over the world, who have shared the LVPEI dream. The Institute is managed by two not-for-profit trusts, the Hyderabad Eye Institute and Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, which are registered under the Society Act.