Aravind Eye Hospital: The original hospital, currently the one for paying patients.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the free-service hospital is a block away.
Aravind Eye Hospital: I saw the paying hospital; nearby hospital provides free service.
Aravind Eye Hospital: The hallways are clean and bright.
Aravind Eye Hospital: The central atrium includes a meditative display.
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Aravind Eye Hospital: the waiting area at the patient registration desk.
Aravind Eye Hospital: The registration clerks enter each patient into the system.
Aravind Eye Hospital: They predict, a year in advance, how many patients will arrive.
Aravind Eye Hospital: The medical records are all on paper, but EMR is in the works.
Aravind Eye Hospital: They track everything; here, the accuracy of records clerks.
Aravind Eye Hospital: The rush is between 10am-1pm, so the goal is “zero at 10”.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Records clerks enter a patient’s progress in and out of each unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: A patient undergoes basic refraction testing.
Aravind Eye Hospital: In some cubbies they replace the old charts with LCD.
Aravind Eye Hospital: After the test, the nurse enters the prescription on WiFi PDA.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Nurses do medical work-up, looking for diabetes.
Aravind Eye Hospital: After diagnosis each patient sees a counselor to discuss options.
Aravind Eye Hospital: This chart shows the different surgeries, rooms, and prices.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: waiting room at pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: glasses shop at pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: a patient exam in pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: a patient exam in the pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: one side of exam room in pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: other side of exam room in pediatric unit.
Aravind Eye Hospital: they sell devices to aid people with low vision capability.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the inpatient area has several classes of patient rooms.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the operating theater includes 7 operating rooms.
Aravind Eye Hospital: doctors staff a videoconference facility for remote clinics.
Aravind Eye Hospital: here we see a remote patient on the videoconferencing facility.
Aravind Eye Hospital: they prefer to use Wi-Fi point-to-point links for cost and speed.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the Wi-Fi base node.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Wi-Fi base node.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Wi-Fi repeater node.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Wi-Fi directional antenna.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the mobile van.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the mobile van allows sophisticated remote camps.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the focus of mobile van is diabetic retinopathy.
Aravind Eye Hospital: a brand new research building under construction.
Aravind Eye Hospital: Dr. V’s office is left as it was when he died, 3 years ago.
Aravind Eye Hospital: a beautiful Rangoli (sand painting), temporary.
Aravind Eye Hospital: the Aravind mission.
