Global Sight Network So One Million Eyes See Again

Photograph by Karl Grobl

Implementation Strategy

Our goal

To engage at least 100 eye hospitals

to perform at least

one million additional surgeries annually

by 2015.

Our purpose

• Expand high quality, high volume, sustainable eye care services available to 200 million people

• Strengthen Seva’s Global Sight Network to mentor partner hospitals through high- performance hospital management and outreach

• Bring services to more women and girls

Global Sight Network Partners

Aravind – Madurai, IndiaSNC – Chitrakoot, IndiaNetra (NNNV) – West Bengal, IndiaAl Noor – Egypt

LV Prasad – Hyderabad, IndiaVisualiza – GuatemalaKCCO – Tanzania Lumbini – Nepal

*More to be announced

Partner Hospitals

Affiliates

Seva Offices

Prospect Hospitals

Partner Selection

• Demonstrated commitment to support scale-up of sight services in their regions

• Affiliated with an eye hospital that is a model for training and development

Partner Selection

• Based on founding organizations’ desire to: – Enhance service delivery

– Improve their own institutions

– Assist other hospitals to become sustainable

Goal by 2015:100 hospitals

1 million more surgeries annually

ThroughHigh Quality, High

Volume, SustainableOphthalmic

Service Delivery

Global Sight Network Framework

Formal Training

• Receive postgraduate clinical training– Ophthalmology– Ophthalmic Nursing and Assistance

• Receive training for managing hospitals– Operations Management & IT– Community Outreach

Advising & Mentoring• Service development and advising to local

and regional eye hospitals

• Experienced personnel mentor other hospitals in sustainability models– Amplifies the number of high-quality, high-

efficiency eye care hospitals

Local Research• Conduct research to assess regional eye

health needs of the population– Clinical and Public Health

• Evaluations of hospital performance

• Publish findings to advance blindness prevention and treatment

Libraries & IT

• Create and maintain a resource center with library resources at Network hospitals– Online and print medical libraries– Web-based benchmarking – Telemedicine– Distance learning

Regional Capacity Development

• To support the Network, Seva will provide– Infrastructure (classrooms, etc.)– Equipment (computers, database, etc.)

• For regional personnel, Seva will– Train personnel to execute core functions– Support personnel to further knowledge

Advocacy & Goodwill• Advocate eye care service delivery

spanning from local to national levels

• Community outreach– Increase eye care & jobs for women & girls

• Help to ensure needs for– Supply chain security & political support– Networking with local & global medical

societies

Results• 26 million to be screened for eye health

• 2.6 million to receive sight restoring surgery (1.6 million being women and girls)

• 8 million to receive corrective eyeglasses

• 200 Million able to access quality eye care

• Millions of women and girls attend school, return to work and/or care for their families

Who We Are• For 30 years, Seva has been a leader of

sustainable healthcare and development community programs

• Seva and Global Sight Network hospitals performed over 500,000 cataract surgeries and screened 3 million people for eye health last year

• For more info, go to www.seva.org/cgi

THANK YOU

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