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Sankara Eye Foundation India (A Unit of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust)

Provides cost-effective eye health services

  • Gold Certified 2023
  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

  • Since

    1977

Formed in 1977 by Dr R.V. Ramani, Sankara Eye Foundation India is a social eye care enterprise providing cost-effective community eye health services Read moreto the underprivileged sections of the society in India. Today Sankara is a group of 11 hospitals with world-class facilities & robust Infrastructure and catering to the rural & urban populations across 8 states of India. Sankara's Community Outreach Model is a unique, replicable & sustainable model that has transformed over ten million lives since its inception and continues to do so. "Gift of Vision" has been Sankara's most remarkable vision restoration project reaching out to poor people and providing eye care at their doorsteps completely free of cost. Today Sankara is one of the largest community eye care service providers in India and the only organization treating 80 % of its beneficiaries completely free of cost and cross-subsidizing the expenses with income generated from 20 % of paying beneficiaries. Effective financial planning, transformational partnership, innovative ideas & structured training process are all that Sankara has adopted to rationalize its vision restoration programs on a national scale.

Demographies Served

Cause Area

Sector

Sub Sector

Vision & Mission

VISION
To work towards freedom from preventable and curable blindness.

MISSION
To provide unmatched eye care through a strong service oriented team.

Donor History

Sankara Eye Foundation USA
Titan Company Limited
ARM Embedded Services
Tata Capital
HDB Financials

Programs

  • Gift of Vision

    State

    Launched by Sankara Eye Foundation India (SEFI) in 1990, Gift of Vision is a massive community outreach programme through which SEFI has performed over 2.3 million free Sight-Restoring cataract surgeries thus far and has become one of the major eye care providers in India. The Gift of Vision program operates by integrating with a community, capitalizing on pre-existing community networks and a highly efficient patient care system. It is aimed at reaching out to rural poor at their door step and provide free of cost eye care. It is one of the most far reaching technologically enabled programme, covering rural areas over 500 km radius of Sankara Eye Hospital. Rural outreach camps are organized to identify beneficiaries with vision impairment. The identified beneficiaries are then brought to Sankara Eye Hospital, where they are examined, assessed, surgery performed, medications provided and transported back to their villages the next day. The treatment, transportation, medicines and boarding is provided completely free of cost to the patient. The rationale for keeping the patients for an additional day is to ensure zero post-operative infection. Review camps are conducted after a month of the surgery to ensure zero post-operative complication. Free transport, meals & accommodation for patients at base hospital have helped to overcome the economic barrier to reach out the community on a large scale.

Impact Metrics

  • Total Surgeries Conducted

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 151062
    • 2020-21 30300
    • 2021-22 105

  • No of Screenings

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 356878
    • 2020-21 50985
    • 2021-22 214413

  • Total Camps Held

    Year-wise Metrics
    • 2019-20 2230
    • 2020-21 470
    • 2021-22 1485

Theory of Change

No one should be needlessly blind

Milestones & Track Record

2.3 million surgeries completed so far

Leadership Team

  • Srini Karthikeyan

    Chief People Officer

  • B I Cathorine

    Chief Finance Officer

  • Dr R v Ramani

    Founder and Managing Trustee

  • Bharath Balasubramaniam

    President

  • Dr Kaushik Murali

    President - Medical Administration

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    100+

  • Strength of Governing Body

    8

  • Diversity Metrics

    64% women

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    Yes

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Organisation Structure

Organisation Structure

Yes

Awards & Recognitions

ï‚· 2020 - Customer Focus - IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj Award
ï‚· Sankara Eye Foundation, India quality initiate SANQALP has received the CAHO Healthcare
Award 2019-20.
 ET News Award for ‘Excellence in Healthcare Quality’ in 2019.
ï‚· Our Founder & Managing Trustee Dr R V Ramani received the Dr G Venkatasamy Oration in
TNOA 2019.
ï‚· QIMPRO QUALTECH Prize for Healthcare edition in 2019
ï‚· 2019 - Safety Focus - IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj Award
ï‚· Qimpro Gold Standard Award 2019 for Dr R V Ramani our Founder & Managing
Trustee.
ï‚· IMC Ramakrishna Bajaj Milestone Merits Recognition National Quality award in
Operations Focus-25th March 2019 at Merchant Chamber quality awards-Mumbai
ï‚· Padma Shri Award for Dr.R.V.Ramani -March 2019

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AABTS5084P

  • Registration ID

    C.NO.1419(73)/81-82

  • 12A

    AABTS5084PE19818

  • 80G

    AABTS5084PF20129

  • FCRA

    075850082

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00003159

Location

  • Headquarters

    16A, Sankara Eye Hospital Street Sathy Road, Sivanandapuram, Coimbatore, 641035

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Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust

Website

Financial Details

 Income / Expenses

  • 2019-20

    Income
    Rs.1,766,670,550
    Expenses
    Rs.1,616,155,410
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.323,231,082
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,292,924,328
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  • 2020-21

    Income
    Rs.1,475,162,092
    Expenses
    Rs.1,440,059,211
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.288,011,842
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,152,047,369
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  • 2021-22

    Income
    Rs.1,952,999,558
    Expenses
    Rs.1,847,606,950
    Admin Expenses
    Rs.369,521,390
    Program Expenses
    Rs.1,478,085,560
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Government Partnerships

District Blindness Control Society

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