• Organization of the outreach vision screening at village level (visits to villages):
  • Preliminary survey of the economically weaker sections
  • Issuance of ID cards to the visually handicapped poor patients
  • Arrangements in the local school for the Sunday morning screening camp
  • Transportation, accommodation and food for the team of Doctors and paramedics for the screening camp
  • Screening camp conduction and identification of the needy patients
• Transportation of identified patients to the base hospital in hospital's bus and by train in certain instances
• Accommodation at the base hospital
• Food for patients: Morning Tea, Breakfast, Lunch, Evening Tea, and Dinner and a fruit
  • Vegetarian food prepared in hospital’s cafeteria under hygienic conditions
• Preliminary Investigations and assessment of the patients
• Treatment for certain co-existing conditions like Diabetes and Hypertension
• Most surgeries are with IOL (Intra Ocular Lens) Implants.
  • 98% of the surgeries are Small Incision Sutureless Manual Phaco surgeries, using the state-of-the-art procedure identical to that which is used all over the world
  • Laser procedures; Cataract, Glaucoma, Oculoplasty, and Vitreo Retinal surgeries are performed
  • Majority of surgeries (up to 88%) are cataract surgeries
• The immediate post operative care for 2-3 days
• Discharge and transportation of the patients back home with medicines and clear instructions on post operative care
• Review and follow up of all the operated patients after 30 days in their respective villages

 A sizeable percentage of patients with systemic illness like Diabetes, Hypertension, Cardiac diseases and Respiratory diseases apart from certain neurological problems like epilepsy, are prone to Strokes, Myocardial Ischaemia, Myocardial Infarction, Status anthmaticus, severe fits etc.  Such complications that arise during their stay at the base hospital are addressed with the help of local cardiology or neurology centers, at Sankara Eye Society’s expense.