3rd Floor, Ramaniyam Isha,11, OMR, Thoraipakkam, Chennai - 600097
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The Rangarajan Vision and Health Foundation

This registered not for profit organisation (public charitable trust) has been founded by Dr Ashok Rangarajan, an ophthalmic surgeon with 25 years of experience in ophthalmology.
Dr.Ashok Rangarajan MS;DNB;FRCS, is an Ophthalmic Surgeon who is passionate about quality care, complete patient satisfaction, ethical and evidence based practice of Oph- thalmology. Dr. Ashok Rangarajan’s ophthalmic career began from 1993 when he would attend eye camps and help conduct high volume surgeries as a part of the NPCB unit based in the department of ophthalmology of Pt JNM Medical college, Raipur, currently the capital of the state of Chattisgarh. Subsequently he worked as a Senior Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon in one of the premier eye institutes of the country, Sankara Nethralaya, Chennai for over a decade, where he helped develop the Jaslok Community Ophthalmic Centre(JCOC), the community ophthalmology wing of the institute. He then represented the organisation on the board of Vision 2020 - the right to sight - India, a na- tional forum formed to achieve the targets set for reducing preventable blindness. He was Director of Eye care of the Tulsi Chanrai Foundation in Nigeria, a charitable organisation, which runs 5 eye hospitals in Nigeria in partnership with the Government in different re- gions of the country.
He has been a high volume surgeon himself and has been deeply involved with all as- pects of the community ophthalmic service.
With this background Dr Ashok Rangarajan has formed the trust, which is registered as a public charitable trust as per norms laid down by the Govt. of India and has been formed with the aim to serve the people of this region (South Chennai and neighbouring Tamil Nadu).
Compassion, Personalized Care, Ethical and Evidence based practice of medicine are the key strengths and beliefs of the team at the Foundation.
The primary aim is to bring a single standard of care to all the sections of society.
The Foundation has currently obtained the Tamil Nadu Government’s permission to deliv- er eye care free of cost at the Govt Corporation hospitals in Thoraipakkam(OMR, South Chennai) and Kannagi Nagar(South Chennai). While the screening is done at the Govt hospitals, all patients needing follow up investigations and treatment are carried out free of cost at the base hospital located in Thoraipakkam in OMR, South Chennai. The Foun- dation has been conducting camps in urban slums and rural Tamil Nadu.
In the past 2 decades or more, camp system of screening and bringing the patients to the base hospital and treating them was the norm, but with time it was realised that there were lacunae in the system, and to have a better reach, establishing vision centres and through them being in constant touch with the populace is now being seen as the best way forward. This concept is being further reenforced by the fact that social distancing is the new normal and the vision centre approach would serve all purposes.
The Foundation is a nascent one but the expertise and experience in this field is large.
Rangarajan Vision and Health Foundation is currently functioning in Tho- raipakkam in South Chennai.



Mission Statement

  • To provide the most up-to-date eye care to patients in a very caring and friendly environment.
  • To preserve and restore vision, respecting the unique needs of each individual patient and offering the best services to satisfy every patient’s needs.
  • To lay emphasis on imparting education to our patients and our community regarding preventive measures and create awareness about eye diseases.


Vision Statement

The Centre has a well equipped operation theatre complex matching NABH standards, 3 consultation rooms, rooms for other investigations, laboratory and 10 ambulatory beds. There are lifts for patient and staff movement.There is an in house pharmacy and optical dispensing service and dedicated housekeeping services.

Trustees
  • Dr. Ashok Rangarajan, Founder Trustee
  • Dr. Sumita Agarkar
  • Mr. Ranjit Rangan
Medical Team Ophthalmic Surgeons
  • Dr Ashok Rangarajan, MS;DNB;FRCS;FMRF
  • Dr. Manas Gorey, DNB(Ophthalmology)
  • Dr PR Balamurugan, MS;FRCS
  • Dr. Sridhar Baratan, MS
General Physicians
  • Dr. Manikandan P.J, MBBS, MRCSEd, MRCGP(UK)
  • Dr. Durga Damodaran, MBBS, MRCGP, Dip Diabetes(UK)
Anaesthetist
  • Dr. Rozzaly Rout, MBBS, DNB(Anaesthesia)
Staff Strength
  • Receptionist/Patient Counsellor/Enquiry/Insurance Desk - 3
  • Optometrists - 3 + 1 Optometry intern
  • Optical Services - 2
  • Nurse - 1 (Surgical and ward work)
  • Phlebotomist- 1
  • OT assistant - 1

Modern Equipment for Comprehensive Eye Care

All patients undergo comprehensive eye examination with modern equipments

Outreach Activities

Health education and information in a community / Primary Health Screening /School teacher counselling /Eye screening

Primary Health / Eye Screening/ Tele-ophthalmology services in high volume screening



The Foundation was registered as a public charitable trust on 30/09/2019.However the charitable activities had begun many months before and the Government approval was obtained on 10/7/2019.
Outreach activities have been limited to vision and health screening camps within a 5 kms radius in collaboration with Govt Corporation hospital / Banks such as Equitas / local clubs / Rotary Club of Madras Coromandel.
Camps have had 2 essential features - screening and education of preventive measures. Preventive health care education has been done by distribution of educational pamphlets, in local language and holding group discussions in schools and local community centres and local radio stations. In schools, lectures to students and group discussions with teachers have been conducted with the aim to identify vision issues and help the stu- dents comply with eye care given.
Screening has been aimed at two groups - the above 50 and the school going children.

The Foundation strongly believes that primary health care and eye care go hand in hand so most camps have been designed in this manner.

laser eye center

Child Eye Care
This(combining primary health and eye care)has been the uniqueness of our ser- vices and we have seen benefits in the community by increasing awareness of nutri- tion and preventive health and eye care.

Camps have mostly been Primary Health and Vision camps where Hemoglobin, Blood sugar, Blood pressure, Weight/Height, physician evaluation and eye evaluation by op- tometrist consisting of vision and imaging by FORUS non-mydriatic camera have been performed and those needing further care have been seen free at the base hospital by senior ophthalmologists.
Further investigations such as OCT for diabetic retinopathy, visual fields for glaucoma have been done free and surgeries have been done free or at a very low cost. Laser treatment for Glaucoma or Retinal conditions have also been done in a similar manner. School camps have aimed at determining refractive errors and patients requiring further care were examined at the base hospital.


The second belief of the Foundation is to keep the continuity of care with the com- munity where screening is performed rather doing it as a one time event.
This ensures that tangible benefits are achieved and increases the confidence of the community with the service provider.
Around 2200 persons have been screened from June 2019.More than 50 free or low pay- ing surgeries have been performed. Spectacles have been distributed free/at minimum cost to school children and some sections of the community.
With social distancing norms we look forward to vision centres to be our link with the community and achieve holistic health for all.
The staff will be increased in number as the project begins, the current strength can cater to the first year projections.

Cataract Services

Modern Operation Theatre for all types of cataract surgeries

Equipment for pre-operative assessment for optimal results

Retina Services

Glaucoma/Neuro-Ophthalmology Services

Surgical Services

The Foundation in its premises runs a high class surgical suite where most ophthalmic surgeries can be performed. The operating theatre has been designed to meet NABH standards and has state of the art equipment to perform the most modern and complex anterior segment surgeries. Patient care of the highest quality and compassion lies at the core of this Foundation.
The operation theatre has a dedicated AHU and HEPA Filter with 6 monthly air quality surveillance and monthly culture and use of indicators and integrators for optimal steril- ization and theatre environment.
Main Operating Room with State of the art Equipment including Leica Microscope, Boyle’s apparatus, “Stellaris” phaco machine

The OT complex has an Ambulatory ward, separate changing area for patients and staff, Recovery area, Autoclave/ Sterilization area and Main Operating Room with facility for Local or General Anaesthesia Surgeries with monitoring facilities.

Recovery Area

Ambulatory Ward

Laboratory Facilities

Tele-Ophthalmology Services

Dr Ashok Rangarajan had been practicing tele ophthalmology for 3 years( 2014-2017 ) with one non-mydriatic (Forus Tri-nethra) imaging unit and trained optometrist being sta- tioned within Sree Renga Hospital in Chengalpattu, where all diabetic patients underwent ophthalmic screening by the optometrist and the images were sent to the base hospital, to be interpreted and the ones needing further care were advised to report to the base hospital.
The equipment has since been moved to Chennai and are used for routine camps.