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Archive -- INDIA -- SEPT. 2009 |
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UPDATE SEPT. 2, 2009 In this Reporter's Notebook, Fred de Sam Lazaro visits the Aravind Eye Care System, 20 years after he first reported on the hospital in 1989.REPORT SEPT. 2, 2009 Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics that subsidizes sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients and provides top-of-the-line care for patients who can pay.SLIDE SHOW SEPT. 2, 2009 Thr Aravind Eye Care System has provided eye care to millions of people for more than three decades, offering sight-restoring surgery to impoverished patients by subsidizing the cost with paying patients. Aravind now offers video consultations, village visits and manufactures its own lenses. VIDEO AUG. 19, 2009 This Web-exclusive report on the partnership that helped grow India's Aravind eye hospitals includes an interview with famed epidemiologist Dr. Larry Brilliant. The Aravind system provides top of the line eye surgeries, treating over 1.7 million patients each year. The majority of the surgeries are performed for free, for people who could normally not afford the procedure. |
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 UPDATE NOV. 9, 2009 Despite shortages, officials stand by the choice not touseadjuvants to stretch supply.  UPDATE OCT. 30, 2009 Foreigners infected with HIV will be allowed to travel and immigrate to the U.S. |
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