Tej Kohli Foundation - About

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L V Prasad Eye Institute
Tej Kohli Cornea Institute
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About the Tej Kohli Foundation
Currently, for people who are blighted by
blindness and other ophthalmic issues, it
prevents them from participating in society and
for many it means being cast out due to their
lack of ability to contribute financially. We
must not allow this to continue in the 21st
century. It is our duty to step in and support
with passion, pride, hard work and a guarantee of
financial commitment.
The Tej Kohli Foundation was founded in 2005 by
Tej Kohli and his wife Wendy as an autonomous,
non-profit organization that does not accept
donations. Areas of work include treating and
preventing corneal blindness and the
Foundations road map is to eliminate blindness
by 2030, extending educational opportunities,
offering midday meals for malnourished children,
vocational training for the physically disabled,
improving the health of rural communities and
empowering women. The Tej Kohli Foundation is
funding the Tej Kohli Cornea Institute (TKCI)
where advances in ophthalmology and treatment
are being undertaken to eliminate blindness. The
Tej Kohli Foundation currently operates in Costa
Rica, India and Africa, whilst constantly
exploring new countries where they can have the
most impact on society at large. The Foundation
is supported through the success of Kohli
Ventures and the skills and intellectual capital
provided by its senior management team (www.
Tejkohlifoundation.com) International
businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr
Tej Kohli, Chairman of Kohli Ventures and
Founder of the Tej Kohli Foundation
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Blindness and visual impairment are a major
global health problem, affecting more than 161
million people worldwide in 2002 (World Health
Organization). Of these 45 million are in India.
Nearly 75 of visual impairment is avoidable,
ie., can be prevented, treated or managed.
L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI), established in
1987, is a world-class eye health institute
encompassing clinical care, education, research,
rehabilitation, eye banking and high impact
rural eye care. The Institute is managed by two
not-for-profit trusts the Hyderabad Eye
Institute (HEI), a registered Trust under the
Indian Trust Act, and the Hyderabad Eye Research
Foundation (HERF), a society registered under
the Societies Act. HEI and HERF together are
responsible for governance of all activities at
LVPEI. LVPEIs Kallam Anji Reddy campus at
Hyderabad, a Centre of Excellence, is
complemented by three Tertiary Centres -
Bhubaneswar Campus, GMR Varalakshmi Campus in
Visakhapatnam and the Kode Venkatadri Chowdary
Campus in Vijayawada.
Vision To provide equitable and efficient eye
care to all sections of society Mission of
Excellence LVPEIs mission is to be a centre of
excellence in eye care services, basic and
clinical research into eye diseases and
vision-threatening conditions, training, product
development, and rehabilitation for those with
incurable visual disability, with a focus on
extending equitable and efficient eye care to
underserved populations in the developing
world. 3
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LVPEI Pyramid of Eye Care
Vision Guardians are at the base of the pyramid
and represent community involvement. Vision
guardians comprise trained young people who keep
a close vigil on the eye health of about 5,000
persons within communities, through door-to-
door surveys and other informal means. Vision
Centres form the next level and serve the primary
eye health needs of the community. Drawing upon
local talent and staffed by persons from the
local community, each Vision Centre caters to a
cluster of villages, individually servicing a
target of around 50,000 people. Secondary Eye
Care Centres are networked to the Vision Centres
and each serves a population of 500,000 persons.
These centres provide care that can diagnose the
complete range of ophthalmological diseases and
offer high quality surgical care for cataract -
the most common cause of blindness. These
centres draw upon local talent too. Tertiary Care
Hosptials/Training Centres are linked to
Secondary Centres and each serves a population of
5 million persons. These centres provide a
comprehensive range of services and also serve
as training centres to the secondary
centres. Centre of Excellence is linked to
tertiary centres and serves a population of 50
million persons. It treats complex diseases,
trains the trainers in subspecialties
rehabilitation and engages in advocacy. The cost
for establishing a Vision Centre, a Secondary Eye
Care Centre, a Tertiary Eye Care Centre and a
Centre of Excellence is about US 10,000, US
100,000, US 1.0 million and US 10 million
respectively. The effective cost at each of
these points of presence, is 20 cents per person.
The cost of providing holistic Eye Care from
base to apex of the Eye Care Pyramid is about
US 1 per person served. The long-term model does
not depend on external funding or expertise, as
the Vision Centres have the potential to grow
into community hubs that address other health
needs, beyond ophthalmic needs. 4
Impact of the Eye Care Pyramid Community needs
determine development of Centres at all levels,
especially at the secondary and primary
levels. The Vision Centres have helped to bring
services within the reach of communities that
otherwise were beyond the scope of most health
care services. Going beyond Eye Care, these
centres have also become important points of
community health awareness and education,
positively influencing attitudes and driving
social and health interventions. LVPEI currently
has 127 Vision Centres that provide primary care
in the districts and villages of Andhra Pradesh,
Telangana, Odisha and Karnataka. These are
linked to Secondary Eye Care Centres (14), which
are in turn linked to LVPEI Tertiary Centres in
Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada and Bhubaneswar.
LVPEIs Centre of Excellence at Hyderabad is at
the apex of the Eye Care Pyramid.
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LVPEI Network Map
Sundargarh
Jharsuguda
Mayurbhanj
Deogarh Bargarh Sambalpur
Keonjhar
Balasore
Bhadrak Jajpur
Subarnapur Baudh ODISHA
Angul
Dhenkanal
Balangir
Cuttack Kendrapara Jagatsinghpur
Nayagarh
Naupada
Kandhamal Bhubaneswar
Khurda Puri
Kalahandi
Ganjam
Rayagada
Nabarangpur
Gajapati Koraput
TELANGANA
Malkangiri
Bidar Visakhapatnam
Hyderabad
Gulbarga
Bijapur
Yadgir
Vijayawada
Bagalkot
Belgaum
Raichur
Koppal
Dharwad
Gadag
ANDHRA PRADESH
Uttara KARNATAKA
Kannada
Haveri Davanagere
Chitradurga
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Shimoga
Chikballapur
Udupi
Tumkur
Chikmagalur
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Bangalore Rural Kolar Bangalore Ramanagara
(127)
Hassan
Dakshina Kannada
Mandya
Kodagu
Mysore
Chamrajanagar
As of November 2015 we have 127 Primary Care
Vision Centres, 14 Secondary Care Service
Centres, 3 Tertiary Centres and our flagship
Centre of Excellence. 5
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Our Linkages
National Linkages
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International Linkages
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Cornea Service
The overarching vision of the institute is to
reduce the prevalence of corneal blindness across
the world and eliminate avoidable causes of
corneal blindness entirely. This is eminently
possible by a symbiotic convergence of
technology, primary and secondary level eye care,
education, and path breaking research with the
unstinting support of philantrophy. The current
components of the institute include each of the
above in varying proportions to form an eclectic
concoction. Clinical Services LVPEI provides
treatment for all corneal diseases under various
subspecialties across its 3 tertiary centers at
Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam and the
Center of Excellence in Hyderabad. The range of
treatment includes corneal transplantation, dry
eye end stage ocular surface diseases, corneal
diseases in children, infections and cutting edge
laser surgery. Key Components In addition to the
Clinical Services, the Clinical Microbiology
Services, the Ocular Pathology Service, the
Sudhakar and Sreekant Ravi Stem Cell Laboratory,
the Champalimaud Translational Research Center,
the Basuch Lomb Contact Lens Center, the Visual
Optics Laboratory, the Center for Ocular
Regeneration (CORE), Srujana Innovation Center
and the Engineering Services dovetail into and
form key collaborators and constitute an
exhilarating symbiotic ecosystem to foster
clinical care and research. Eye Banking The
Ramayamma International Eye Bank (RIEB) at LVPEI
is the largest provider of sight restoring
corneas in India and a SightLife Centre of
Excellence in Eye Banking. Education Over 250
cornea specialists have been trained at LVPEI
over the last 25 years along with innumerable
observers, who have taken back the best practices
in corneal clinical care and research to
international shores and the remote corners of
the country. Research Basic research is conducted
into the genetic, molecular and cellular biology,
microbiology, pathology, eyebanking and stem
cells aspects of corneal disorders. Clinical
research includes clinical trials and public
health research, particularly epidemiology, on
the incidence and prevalence of various corneal
conditions. Public Health and Rural
Outreach LVPEIs public health and outreach
programs are conceptualized as high quality
primary care with permanent infrastructure and
well trained human resources, serving
marginalized populations in the most underserved
areas. LVPEI is not a hospital. It is a seva
kendram for the poorest of the poor in society. K
Rama Krishna Das Retired-Tahsildar, Andhra
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The Joy of Sight Manish Kumar sits on his
fathers lap and observes the world around
intently. Other than the tiny pair of spectacles
that he wears, there is no other sign of the
ordeal that the 14-month- old boy had to face.
Kumar suffered from a congenital condition,
which led to the deterioration of his left cornea
soon after birth. In December last year, Kumar
who lives in Chhapra, Bihar, was brought to L V
Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, where he
underwent a corneal transplant surgery. Kumar is
lucky. The chances of him getting a corneal
transplant in Bihar were nil, since the state
has not collected a single cornea in the past
one year. Even if he were to travel to other
states, Kumar would have had to wait for weeks,
if not months, for the surgery. At L V Prasad
Eye Institute, Kumar underwent the surgery within
a day of the diagnosis. And, his treatment was
done for free, given that his family could not
afford it. The institute is one among the few
institutes in India where there is no waiting
list for receiving corneas.
Eye for a Tooth Nearly 25 years ago, Bhagyamma
lost her vision due to severe body rash as a
reaction to a penicillin injection that scarred
the mucous membrane in her eyes. To restore her
vision, Bhagyamma underwent Modified Osteo
Odonto Keratoprosthesis (MOOKP), a surgery a
visiting doctor from the USA performed at LVPEI.
In the first stage, Bhagyammas tooth was
harvested. The tooth and the adjoining bone were
cut down and a hole was drilled through the
center of her tooth root. An artificial cornea
lens was fitted into the tooth and inserted
under the skin of her cheekbone to allow normal
tissue and blood vessels to develop around it.
Three weeks later, this device was surgically
removed from under her cheek skin and fitted to
the front of her left eye to permit light to
filter through the retina or film layer at the
back of her eye. A skin graft was also performed
by removing her oral mucosa and using it as a
cover sheet for the lens-embedded tooth device to
make the front of the operated eye look as
natural as possible. A day after the final
surgery, Bhagyamma was thrilled that she could
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LVPEI in the Media
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28 Years of Excellence in Eye Care
1.97 crore patients served
lt 50 services provided free of cost, regardless of complexity
94 lakh outpatients treated
10 lakh surgeries conducted
1.28 lakh persons with irreversible blindness or low vision, rehabilitated
52,600 donor corneas harvested
27,200 donor corneas transplanted to needy patients
1000 stem cell based reconstructive surgeries for damaged corneal surfaces
3,000 villages provided direct service through secondary and primary care
145 secondary primary care centres that cover the remotest rural areas in the states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Karnataka.
18,200 Indian and foreign eye care professionals trained
1500 research papers published
38 PhDs awarded
Recognition ? The first major eye institute in
India to receive accreditation from the National
Accreditation Board for Hospitals and
Healthcare providers (NABH). A World Health
Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for the
Prevention of Blindness and a pioneer in
developing eye health models for underserved
areas of the developing world. ? Member of
Commonwealth Eye Health Consortium. ? LVPEIs
Vision Centre approach adapted by the Australian
Government in its efforts to develop primary eye
care in the Western Pacific region. ? The
Government of India has adopted LVPEIs Pyramid
Model of Eye Care Service Delivery in its
current five-year plan budget and the model will
soon be implemented in other States in a phased
manner. ? LVPEIs Ramayamma International Eye
Bank (RIEB) is the largest provider of sight
restoring corneas in India and a SightLife
Centre of Excellence in Eye Banking. ? LVPEIs
Baush Lomb School of Optometry (BLSO) adjudged
Best Optometry Institute in India.
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LV Prasad Eye Institute
Hyderabad Kallam Anji Reddy Campus L V Prasad
Marg, Banjara Hills Hyderabad - 500 034
Telangana, India
Bhubaneshwar Patia Bhubaneshwar - 751 024
Odisha, India
Visakhapatnam GMR Varalakshmi Campus 11-113/1,
Hanumanthawaka Junction Visakhapatnam - 530 040
Andhra Pradesh, India
Vijaywada Kode Venkatadri Chowdary Campus
Tadigadapa Vijayawada - 521 137 Andhra Pradesh,
India
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