India is home to 1/3 of the world’s blind population. Yet‚ for many of these cases‚ it is preventable and treatable. In developing countries‚ the leading cause of blindness is attributed to cataracts‚ in which the natural lens of the eye clouds over time. This requires surgical removal and replacement with an artificial one. In 2006 alone‚ India had nearly 7 million cataract-blind individuals‚ with roughly 3.8 million new cases occuring every year. However‚ with 25% of Indians considered below the poverty
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Aravind Eye Care System: A unique model It was year 1976. Padmashree Dr. G. Venkataswamy‚ popularly referred to as Dr. V.‚ had just retired from the Government Medical College‚ Madurai‚ India as the Head of the Department of Ophthalmology. Rather than settling for a quiet retired life‚ Dr. V. was determined to continue the work he was doing at the Government Medical College‚ especially organizing rural eye camps to check sight‚ prescribe needed corrective glasses‚ do cataract and other surgeries
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Venkataswamy‚ Aravind Eye Case System was created with the idea of creating a sustainable eye care system. The mission if AECS was to eliminate needless blindness. They wanted to provide quality eye care that everyone could afford‚ to rich and to poor alike. It expanded itself to multispecialty eye care. AECS charged usually lower than comparable hospitals in its payable section. They followed the principle of high volume which would in turn also supplicate high quality in eye care. For patients
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Aravind Eye Care System Case Analysis [pic] A VISIONARY’S MISSION To ELIMINATE NEEDLESS BLINDNESS Group 19 Group Members Ahmed Shariq Mamsa PGP-08-095 Barath.K PGP-08-105 Harini.R PGP-08-119 Harshitha.S.Kumar PGP-08-122 Neeraj Jain PGP-08-143 Santhosh Rathnam Palani PGP-08-165 Contents 1. Brief Introduction 3 2. Mission and Vision 5 3. MODEL & STRATEGY 7 3.1 AECS Model 7 3.2 AECS Strategy and Positioning 8 4. CATARACT
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Mission * Quality eye care to rich and poor alike. * Blindness is needless and curable most of the times. * Start the community outreach programmes. * No cross-subsidization. Objective * Increase the awareness of blindness-cures and need for early treatment. * Helping other hospitals to increase their level of productivity. * Increase the %age of IOL surgeries. * Increase the productivity of doctors. * Increase learning of doctors. * Large volumes were necessary
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Case: Aravind Eye Hospital * What is Aravind’s mission? How successful is Aravind at achieving its mission? The mission is to bring eyesight to the masses of poor people in India‚ Asia‚ Africa and all over the world. To provide quality care as a non-profit eye hospital. To spread the Aravind model and offer hope in all parts of the world. Aravind has grown from a 20-bed hospital in 1976 to 1224 beds in 1992 as one of the biggest hospitals of its kind in the world. The Aravind organization
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The Aravind Eye Hospital‚ Mandurai‚ India: In Service of Sight 44118637‚ 44019122‚ 46650842 and 42441715 Executive Summary Key Success Factors Utilizing Porter’s Evolution of Global Competition‚ the following section identifies several key factors that led to Aravind’s success. The factor conditions‚ firm strategy and rivalry‚ related industries and demand conditions were fundamental to this eye hospital’s social and financial realization. 1. Factor Conditions: Labor and capital conditions contributed
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success is their vision of helping poor people in Asia and Africa (he changes his specialty for that). • Dr. V creates his own instrument to perform better‚ have high skills and have personal characteristic (leadership skills). • The eye care system which include an eye bank‚ an ophthalmic equipment and supplies manufacturing plant‚ research foundations and programs and best technologies. • Have his own recruitment people by provide training and consultancy services‚ also recruiting and training
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Baiter ENGN 1930X Paper # 1 The Aravind Eye Hospital Case Dr. Venkataswarny‚ founder of The Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai‚ India has accomplished his initial goal of offering quality eye care at a reasonable cost. However‚ in the process he has created an empire of three hospitals and 707 eye camps that pays staff members 2/3 less than ophthalmologists in private practices for twice the amount of work. In order to successfully spread the Aravind model to India‚ Asia and Africa‚ I recommend
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Aravind Eye Hospital – Case Study Exhibit 4 – Historical Patient Statistics(Consolidated) Year | Paying(screening visits) | Paying(surgery) | Free and Camp(screening visits) | Free and Camp(surgery) | 1976 | - | 248 | - | - | 1977 | 15‚381 | 980 | 2‚366 | - | 1978 | 15‚781 | 1‚320 | 18‚251 | 1‚045 | 1979 | 19‚687 | 1‚612 | 47‚351 | 2‚430 | 1980 | 31‚334 | 2‚511 | 65‚344 | 5‚427 | 1981 | 39‚470 | 3‚139 | 75‚727 | 8‚172 | 1982 | 46‚435 | 4‚216 | 79‚367 | 8‚747 | 1983 | 56‚540 |
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