Vision Statement

To help eradicate needless blindness

Mission Statement

To provide high quality eye care to all segments of society through state-of-the-art services

About Us

​Sankara Eye Hospital is a state of the art multi specialty eye hospital located at Samarjhola, Ganjam District, Odisha, about 13 km from Brahmapur Railway Station.  Sankara Eye Hospital is an exclusive eye care centre with a singular vision of providing high quality care to all segments of society, rich or poor.

State-of-the-art outpatient facilities exist for examination of all eye disorders and a team of highly skilled Optometric technicians and Ophthalmologists provide personalized and professionally competent care.

Background

• 45 million people in the World are visually handicapped
• 25% of the World’s blind live in India
• 80% of the blindness is either preventable or curable
• An estimated 2 million are new cases of cataract every year
• Majority of the blind live in rural India who suffer from inaccessibility to affordable eye care
• Blindness prevalence in Odisha is 1.4% ((approximately 588,000 people)
• ​National average is 1.0% of population
• National Program for Control of Blindness target – 0.3% by 2020
• No established facility for high volume community ophthalmology in Southern and South western Odisha
• 200 bed Eye Hospital to provide high quality eye care

The Management

Board of Trustees

B P Jain, FCA
S Visvanathan
V Lakshmanan
Wg Cdr V Shankar
Suresh Gurumani
Rtn S N Balasubramanian

​Managing Trustee
Trustee & Secretary
Trustee & Treasurer
Trustee & Executive Director
Trustee
Trustee 

Patrons

V.G. Raghavan
Jain Dhaval J. Chandan
Mangal Chand Tater
N.R. Chandran
T.R. Rajagopalan