Sankara Eye Hospital celebrates its Founders Day

Ludhiana, May 21, 2014: Sankara Eye Hospital celebrated its Founders Day on Wednesday in hospital premises today. In this event, hospital welcomed two new doctors Dr. Satya Karna (Cataract, Refractive Error and Neuro Ophthalmologist) and Dr. Madhu Karna (Cataract, Refractive Error and Paediatric Ophthalmologist) in presence of S. Jagmohan Singh (Chairman of Oster Group), Ranjodh Singh (Chairman GST Group and Director Sankara) and Sponsors from Lions Club, Avtar Singh and Amrik Singh. Brig. M.S Gujral (Retd) CEO of the hospital introduced his team and put light on the achievements of Sankara Eye Care Institutions with a small presentation in which students of optometry course from Chitkara University also became the part.
Gujral informed about  brief history and, facility and procedures available at the hospital, and also introduced all the specialists they were: Dr. Satya Karna (Catract, Refractive Error and Nuero Ophthalmologist), Dr. Manoj Gupta (General Ophthalmologist) , Dr. Madhu Karna (Catract, Refractive Error and Pediatric Ophthalmologist), Dr. Asheesh Bajaj (Glaucoma Specialist), Dr. Ribhu Soni (Retina Specialist), Dr. Rajesh ( Retina Specialist , Visiting Consultant from Banglore), Dr. Ruchi Dabas (General Ophthalmologist) , Dr. Ramneet Kaur (General Ophthalmologist), Dr. Anupreet Sethi (General Ophthalmologist) , Dr. Navdeep Sethi (Anaesthetists) , Dr. Manveen Tibb (Anaesthetists), Dr. Pankaj Gupta (General Physician).
Sankara Eye Hospital is a part of Sankara Eye Care Institutions (SECI) which started work as a charitable trust in 1977. It is a group of 13 eye hospitals in India comprising a team of 173 doctors, 600 paramedical professionals, and 275 support staff and has touched the lives of over 40 million people in these 37 plus years. Its mission towards freeing mankind of preventable and curable blindness continues to follow divine light. It is a registered, not-for-profit organization that functions on a self-sustaining 80:20 model. The positive revenue generated from 20% of our services is used to cross-subsidize eye care to the underprivileged; 80% of the services is rendered free of cost, to these less privileged citizens. Besides many awards in earlier years, SECI has been recognised for its services and has received Best Healthcare NGO 2013 award, Shri Dharmsey Nansey Oman Award by Vision 2020, Indian Merchants Chamber Ramakrishan Bajaj National Quality Performance Excellence Trophy 2014, Medical Excellence Award 2014.
Sankara Eye Hospital, Ludhiana a comprehensive eye care super specialty facility was opened on April 2, 2012. This is the 11th Sankara eye hospital functional across India, under the aegis of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Medical Trust. It is a 100 bedded super-specialty tertiary eye care hospital with five Operation Theatres, equipped with world class facilities to provide comprehensive quality eye care services comparable to the best in international standards. It is the biggest super specialty eye hospital in all of Punjab. Sankara Eye Hospital, Ludhiana provides all ophthalmic sub specialties including Lasik vision correction and Computer vision clinic.
During these two years 25000 people visited Sankara Eye Hospital, Ludhiana and nearly all of them went back highly satisfied. In their community service program the hospital has conducted more than 290 camps, screened more than 60,000 people free of cost and carried out more than 7200 surgeries free of cost.