Case on Aravind Eye Care

Blindness and impaired vision have been linked with poverty and can affect ones health and income status quite heavily in developing countries. Unfortunately many of the reasons for impaired vision such as blinding cataracts, are the most common form of preventable blindness in the developing world such as Pakistan (Blindness and poverty outreach). LRBT is an NGO based in Pakistan that treats and provides eye care to the residents. This NGO was established in 1984, the co-creators

Working at EVC, I have had the unique privilege of learning from six different doctors and have been able to observe the various characteristics of each. From taking the time to thoroughly educate patients on eye health, to creating strong personal relations with them, their practices allow me to envision the type of optometrist I plan to become. One of the most important skills I have learned from my employment is an intense attention to detail. Although each of the six doctors have distinct approaches to eye care, they have all impressed upon me the value of taking pride in my work, demanding nothing less than excellence from their employees.

I’ve come to understand why having access to institutions or facilities that can provide adequate sight and vision treatments is necessary. Being in America we’re blinded by an abundance of luxuries. We take the small things in life for granted and feel as if they should be handed to us with a silver spoon. What about the child in India who doesn’t have the opportunity to visit care centers to examine his or her eyes? What about the homeless and orphan children in Russia that can’t afford to see a doctor about their blurred vision? Who’s going to help out the child of the native lands that lives too far from the nearest medical care clinic but just severely injured his or her eye? All of these things are real life situations and real life problems that less developed countries face as they struggle to obtain funding or even educators who can routinely and professionally provide the necessary

The entire hospital holds a total of 90 beds, 5 operating rooms, 6 examination rooms, and a laboratory. Despite the size of the hospital, they average 150 operations per week and 7000 to 7500 operations annually. Also, it is important to note that there are only 12 full-time surgeons and 7 assistant part-time surgeons that handle all operations in 5 day a week period. The last thing to take into consideration is that each patient stays 3 days out of a week starting the day they arrive. Although Shouldice’s operations seems to be functioning just fine, there is a debate of effectiveness of whether or not they are fully utilizing their full potential in relation to surgeries performed and beds being

The implementation of the European Time Working Directive (EWTD in respect of doctors in training (NCHDs) was adopted into Irish Law in 2004 and state that ideally the working week should be no longer than 48 hours. Restrictions on working hours represent a corresponding restriction on the amount of direct surgical practice a trainee can have and push us to explore other means of training that are more focused and efficient. Deliberate practise can offer a means of developing surgeons skills that is more time effective and does not rely on scheduled theatre hours.

Ray Charles, Life of Being Blind “My worst fear is not being able to hear.” This is a famous quote from Ray Charles Who is a musician who played piano even with his disability. He grew up in a home with one brother who died at the age of four. He was also poor growing up (Janet 45).

For Aramark to improve their performances of raising revenue from previous years, they should start off from changing their image to the students. Currently, UNLV students do not have an exceeding image about the Dining Commons for their bad reputations like food quality and service. They should first provide better quality food products; it would also help to increase the variety of the menu. This could involve a wider choice of fruits, vegetables, grains, sandwich, and other main course meals other than burgers and pizza. The Dining Commons can provide a small station targeting the healthy eaters who favor healthier menu choices; for example, energy bowls are demanded by many teens and young adults who like to eat healthy and

In the last 2 decides the number of allied health professionals has increased tremulously, along with the number of surgical technologist. The need for surgical technologist in surgery did not arise until World War II and technological advances also created the need for trained personnel that could assist the surgeons. Surgeons have always needed skilled assistants including ones that have knowledge of surgical instrumentation. Today the profession of surgical technology as it is defined today, developed as a result of rapid, monumental developments in technology in general (Boss 2).

In the early 20th century, surgeons found themselves needing critical assistance with procedures during World War II, but there weren’t enough qualified people, which then began the start of formal education programs to properly train the assistants. Over the years, surgeries have become more complex, but these two advancements made a huge difference from how surgeries used to be.

Fundación para la Salud Visual Infantil: Providing Permanent Eye Care to children in underserved communities in Latin America (FPLSVI) was founded in 1995 by Natalie Johnson and Isabel Rodriguez to provide permanent eye care access to children in underserved areas of Central and South America. The mission statement of this organization is “to provides permanent professional eyecare to visually impaired children in underserved communities in Latin America”. From our experience and available human, financial and technical resources, FPLSVI will successfully implement Improving Childhood Sight Program (ICSP) within the cost and timeframe previously described on this gran application.

Not only patients, doctors estimate the time of surgery takes, predict times of body check. Patients know how the process runs but they seldom think how to against. It is easily to see that everything is standardized and homogenized. Each hospital having the same service and process.

Nineteen full and part-time surgeons split a load of 30-36 operations per day at about 3-4 operations each. Typical operations took only about 45 minutes for initial operations and 60-90 minutes for recurrences which would allow a surgeon to complete their day in time for lunch. Surgeons would perform patient examinations on non-operating days and would only be required to be on call once every ten weekdays and once every ten weekends (Heskett, 2003, p. 6). While the surgeons were well trained, a more experienced surgeon was always available for complicated situations. A full-time surgeon with 5-10 years of experience received a starting salary of about $50,000 with possible bonus based on profit and performance. Part-time assisting surgeons were paid 51% of the $60 fee charged to patients. The sole anesthesiologist was paid $300 per day to supervise all five operating rooms and administer general anesthesia as needed (Heskett, 2003, p. 7). Surgeons were typically happy at the hospital but not all would be interested in performing these precise and typical operations forever.

“I walked into my first operating room, rotating on orthopedic surgery, and my world changed,” she said. “I was really good at surgery. I could operate. I had great hand-eye (coordination). I loved everything about it.”

Vision challenge or impairment is when a person’s degree of seeing is very low and the affected person requires assistance in order to carry out daily routine. Significantly, for one to qualify as visually impaired there must be prove that a person cannot undertake duties by himself without necessary assistance. For a person to qualify as a visually challenged, there must be a prove that the affected eyes cannot be conventionally treated. Visual challenge cannot be corrected by surgery, refractive measures neither by medication and that is why it is termed as visual impairment. The most rampart causes of visual challenge are trauma, degenerative or congenital means and a variety of diseases. In the society,

It’s estimated that 50million people globally suffering from blindness with approx. 12million of them living in India where a disparity in scope, continuity and quality exists throughout the different areas and regions which are ‘inadequately’ serviced by the Indian National Healthcare system. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 80% of all global blindness is avoidable through either prevention; control or it can be treated successfully with the surgical removal of cataracts. In 1976 India didn’t have any eye care facilities with the capability to treat the large numbers requiring such care. Current government spending in India is approx. 1.2% of its GDP towards healthcare goods and services, in comparison to 8.3% in the U.S (Divya Rajagopal & Rohini Mohan, 2015) representing a significant existence of the market opportunity for push/pull innovation within the Indian healthcare system. India