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Range of Services Offered at SNC:
SNC offers a range of services in ophthalmic care replete with recent technological advances.
The scale of cataract treatment available at SNC includes:
Ø Extra Capsular Cataract Extraction (ECCE) with IOL implantation Ø Small Incision Cataract Surgery (SICS) Ø Phacoemulsification with PMMA or Foldable Lens (Silicon/Acrylic) Implantation In addition,
minor procedures such as YAG Capsulotomy and Filament removal are also
performed.
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The exclusive pediatric ophthalmic services form one of the unique facets of ophthalmic care provided at SNC. The range of services offered include, treatment for congenital cataract, myopia, squint, congenital glaucoma and occuloplastic services for children. The Children’s Eye Care Centre at SNC is a one of its kind centre in Central India that offers intensive and quality care by trained pediatric ophthalmologists round the clock. The Center houses a child-friendly OPD and IPD and special children’s play area. It also offers structured fellowship training in pediatric ophthalmology. The Center is equipped with the essential equipments recommended by WHO/IAPB to deliver quality pediatric eye care services. The Center also imparts training to school teachers as part of its ongoing school screening program to detect basic eye ailments especially refractive errors in school going children.
The Centre in collaboration with its long standing partner ORBIS International
developed a regional training institute in the year 2006 to train human resource
for delivering quality pediatric eye care in hospitals and eye care centers in
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As per the recommendation of the NPCB survey (2002), to prevent serious loss of vision, Glaucoma screening is done for all patients aged above 35 years who access SNC’s services. The Glaucoma Department receives a high volume of Primary Glaucoma which is inherited along with Secondary Glaucoma due to trauma, inflammation, diabetes, retinal vascular disease and hyper mature cataracts. The Glaucoma Department performs all advanced diagnostic tests for Glaucoma screening such as, Automated Perimetery, Goldman Applanation Tonometry, Gonioscopy, Fundoscopy and YAG Laser Iridectomy. The Department of Glaucoma at SNC performs 2600 glaucoma surgeries on an average annually.
The future sights for the Glaucoma Department include developing in to a
teaching and training centre and initiating a large-scale Glaucoma Outreach
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The Occuloplasty Department of SNC is renowned for performing complex cosmetic corrective surgeries. The Department runs an exclusive OPD and a well-equipped Operation Theatre with support from microbiology, pathology and radiology departments. It offers a range of services including pterygium, symblepheron, entropion, ectropion, ptosis, small lid mass, lid injuries, chronic dacryostinosis, sac fistulas and orbital diseases which are treated both medically and surgically.
The Department envisions adding advanced treatment for orbital problems and lid neoplasm.
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Since its inauguration in
April 2004, Vitreo-Retina Department has become the largest referral centre in
central India. The department is equipped with state of art instruments. with
full fledged facilities for medical retina, department is performing all types
of vitreo-retinal surgeries for dropped IOL/Nucleus, macular hole, vitreous
hemorrhage, complex retinal detachments. Department is providing intravitreal
Avastin to poor people at a subsidized rate. Department is attending to 200
patients daily and performing more than 50 surgeries monthly. Shortly department
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Inline with the WHO global initiative of 'Vision 2020: The Right to Sight' program with low vision care as a prime objective, SNC has initiated its low vision program with skill training and capacity building. It endeavors to increase awareness and develop skills of eye care professionals in low vision care through quality training programs. The aim of the training program is to train Ophthalmologist, Optometrists, Rehabilitation Professionals, Special Educators, Optometry Students, Opticians Vision Technician, Ophthalmic Technicians and other eye care professionals in low vision rehabilitation of patients.
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Uvea services are a rapidly growing area of clinical eye care management which
requires specialized training in this sub-specialty.
The department
at SNC has the potential to treat the following disease related to Uveitis- ü VKH ü GHPC ü Amphigenous/Serpigenous choroiditis ü ARN/PORN ü Chorodal tuberculoma ü Necrotising Scleritis ü Eales disease ü Various retinal Vasculitis ü Treating Complicated Cataracts
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of these services, SNC has become the first such institute in Central India to
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The department of cornea and refractive surgery is well placed. The treatment of corneal diseases covers microbiological investigations of corneal infection, Keratoplasty, amniotic membrane transplantation, Limbal stem cell transplantation and pterigium surgery. The department is equipped to carry out investigations such as, corneal topography, specular microscopy, corneal wavefront analysis and pachymetry. The department of refractive surgery regularly carries out LASIK, PRK, & Phakic IOL Surgery.
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Eye Bank The Sadguru Eye Bank was started on 3, Nov 2007. The eye bank is active in corneal tissue retrieval, processing & evaluation of corneal tissue, storage of corneal tissue and supplying tissue for corneal transplantation.
The eye bank is equipped with enucleation & corneal excision instruments, MK
medium Eye Bank specular microscope and is led by a team of a corneal surgeon,
an eye bank technician and grief counselors.
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Centre for Community Ophthalmology (CCO) The Centre for Community Ophthalmology (CCO) was initiated in the year 2002. The services under the umbrella of the Centre include implementing community based projects, training, education, research and advocacy. The Center envisions to add consultancy services in community ophthalmology to other hospitals and organizations in the near future.
SNC's mandate has been to work primarily for the rural populace. Ensuring availability of affordable eye care services and creating equal access to them are programmatic imperatives that we endeavour towards. The people living in the states of MP, UP and Bihar that are largely covered under SNC's service area account for more than half of India's economically deprived population. These people are often poor and socially vulnerable and having a member of the family suffering from eye or any other disease gradually exacts a heavy social and economic price on the family, on the community and, as a result on the country.
The Center for Community
Ophthalmology was initiated to conceive, plan and design community oriented eye
care projects. The supporting pillars of training, research advocacy and
consultancy assist to understand the felt-need of eye care services among the
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The following projects are implemented under the ambit of the CCO.
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In order to strengthen the skill capacity of ophthalmologists, paramedical personnel and eye-care management aspirants further, SNC developed its pillars of education and training. A number of long and short-term fellowships and courses are offered in different streams of ophthalmic specialties for ophthalmologists and paramedics as well as management and research based courses for management trainees. The course terms range from 2 months to 3 years.
The Centre for Community
Ophthalmology (CCO) coordinates the following courses under the facet of
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To ground evidence, theory
and practice into its service delivery initiatives, SNC has undertaken a number
of
1. Operational Research 2. Health Service and Systems Research 3. Evidence based research to improve and design programs in line with the eye care needs in the rural community.
The following research studies are ongoing under
the CCO:
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Advocacy has a dominant role to play in eye care initiatives. To augment demand for equal access and utilization of quality eye care services, to support project implementation and to guide policy decisions.
SNC has been involved with advocacy of eye care rights and issues in a number of forums and service delivery initiatives. SNC is a prominent member of the VISION 2020 forum. It pioneered the state chapter of the VISION 2020 forum in India for the state of Madhya Pradesh. Through this forum SNC in partnership with other key members is working towards raising awareness on blindness and eye care through a multi-stakeholder approach. Regular meetings with the Government assist in advocating policy-level issues which impinge the community at large. On a regular basis, education and IEC material is developed to spread awareness among the village communities. Other important activities include celebrating the World Sight Day annually and conducting regular workshops and seminars on advocacy for eye care concerns.
A number of articles have
also been published by the team at CCO in leading scientific journals and
magazines highlighting issues of priority to eliminate needless blindness in
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Ensuing the enormous need
of having basic eye care services available in closer vicinities of the village
communities, SNC began reaching out from its hospital precincts to the villages.
This was achieved through our multi-pronged activities which over the years have
gradually grown to include comprehensive outreach camps, school eye screening
program, non-school going children eye screening program, vision center services
and eye-health education programs. These activities have positively assisted in
reaching out timely and qualitative eye care interventions to the communities.
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Presently, SNC runs 17 Vision Centers in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh . SNC plans to develop 40 vision centers by the year 2020 in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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SSSST takes pride in the continued trust and association it has earned over the years of its esteemed partners. These include the surge of volunteers who selflessly dedicate their time to the cause and commitment of the Trust as well as esteemed global humanitarian organizations. The following section is dedicated in appreciation to our partners in the Fight to Blindness.
Volunteers
SSSST has been in partnership with ORBIS International, USA since 2001. The partnership started with Hospital Based Programs (HBPs) and has mushroomed into a long standing association of assisting SNC to develop into a Rural Eye Care Institute par excellence.
SEVA, USA
Seva Foundation, USA is a treasured partner of SSSST. Seva Foundation has been assisting SNC with technical support into building SNC’s potential as a Centre of Excellence. Seva has been supporting the Adult Outreach activities along with training of ophthalmologists and mid-level personnel at Aravind Eye Care Systems to develop SNC as a Training and Learning Centre in Eye Care for Central India.
Aravind Eye Care System (AECS)
AECS has been partners with SNC in sustainability development through numerous training programs in enhancing the qualitative output of eye care services. AECS shares a special vision for India with SNC, to remove avoidable blindness in India by 2020. AECS entered into a 5-year partnership with SNC in the year 2002 along with ORBIS International and Seva Foundation to raise the technical expertise in ophthalmology at SNC through intensive long and short term trainings of its ophthalmic team and developing SNC as a resource center. It has also assisted SNC in adopting cost-effective measures to effectively deal with large volumes of patients without compromising on quality of care.
Academy for Educational Development (AED) SNC entered into partnership with AED in the year 2007 for a unique initiative on Community-Public-Private partnership (CPP), a pilot concept for sustainable child eye care services. The project endeavors to target children ≤18 years of age for improving health seeking behaviour and creating a systematic database on health care needs. The State Government of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh are joint partners in this initiative.
Standard Chartered Bank
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Short Term Training Programs in Eye Care
SNC’s
objective is to develop and strengthen technical and professional skills of
ophthalmologists, eye care managers, technicians and mid-level ophthalmic
personnel. In order to build a pool of eye care professionals who will
effectively contribute in delivering eye care services and addressing the
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Owning to the huge backlog of cataract in central India, cataract services form
the most prominent service at Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya. Cataract services
account for 95% of the ophthalmic services at SNC. Patients and families from
all sections of society access cataract services at the hospital. The range
includes sub-luxated cataract, traumatic cataract, complicated cataract, high
myopia, coloboma and cataract with corneal pathology.
research initiatives. The Centre for Community
Ophthalmology plays the lead role in designing and conducting these community
and hospital based research studies. The prominent research initiatives include;
Predicated on the need to make primary eye care services easily available to the
rural communities where the need is utmost, SNC embarked on the concept of
Vision Centres (VCs). Vision Centres, in concurrence with the Vision 2020 action
plan are mini eye-care rural service centers with the basic objective of making
primary eye care services available to the rural populace. Each Vision Centre is
planned to cover a population of approximately 50,000 people. 
SSSST is ever indebted to the selfless service rendered each year by the
hundreds of followers of Gurudev-Shri Ranchoddasji Maharaj from India and abroad
who visit SSST to assist voluntarily in the different projects run by the Trust.
The volunteers form the backbone for realizing Gurudev’s vision of “Food for the
Hungry, Clothes for the needy and eye sight for the blind”.
ORBIS
International, USA
SNC and Standard Chartered Bank entered partnership in 2008 for developing
primary eye care infrastructure in the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar
Pradesh. In line with the tenets of the VISION 2020 – the Right to Sight in
India, developing new Vision Centers are a key strategy to increase
accessibility of eye care services in difficult to reach areas. This strategy
forms the core crux of the project in partnership with Standard Chartered Bank.
The project would cover 10 nodal sites of thickly populated semi urban towns in
the two states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh which would form the outreach
catchment areas of SNC. The selected districts for the Vision Centers include
Satna, Panna, Fatehpur, Chitrakoot and Banda Districts. 
Sadguru Netra Chikitsalaya (SNC), a 350-bedded multi-specialty eye hospital,
equipped with state-of-the-art equipments, performing around 75,000 eye
surgeries in a year, invites applications for the various training programs, as
mentioned hereunder.