The Vision Mission (TVM) travelled to Vietnam in July-August, 2019. TVM was collaborating with Alina Vision, USA to set up a Medical Retina Service and Oculoplastics service at Alina’s first eye hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. TVM’s goals as an organisation has been at capacity building, sustainability and access to sub-speciality eye care in under-served areas in East and South Asia. This found mutual synergies with Alina Vision. This Project was named “The Alina Project”
Category Archives: The Vision Mission
The Sri Lanka Diaries- TVM footprints in 2016
I was part of a team of surgeons who went to Northern Sri Lanka to operate on poor patients there who couldn’t afford eye surgery. We went to a hospital in Vavuniya which was the biggest hospital in the northern province to do the surgeries. This region was the most affected by the 25 year old civil war which only recently ended.
Project Netra 2017: The Vision Mission’s India story
We started this present trip with a CME in Bhubaneshwar, then moved to Bhawanipatna to witness the launch of the collaboration between Trilochan and SBI foundation to make the Kalahandi district of western Odhisha cataract blind free by 2021. We then moved to Sambalpur to commence Project Netra 2017. This year TVM is supporting TN for 2000 free cataract surgeries.
Finding Superman: Changing a prolific surgeon to a social entrepreneur
We need supermen like Dr. Shiva for healthcare in India. People who have to be physicians, surgeons, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and managers combined into one person. People who can take on multiple responsibilities in this endeavor without an almost non-existent government support and yet be driven enough to bring about a social change. We have found one, I’m sure we would find more.
DR. RAGHURAJ HEGDE 