Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Eye Doc Uses Social Entrepreneurship to Provide Care

"So investors, take note: opportunities abound in parts of the world you might never have thought to look -- places like Tamil Nadu, India, where the Aravind Eye Care System, a non-profit purveyor of high-quality, low-cost cataract surgery and spectacles, has been treating India's visually impaired for more than 35 years," says the Huffington Post. "Founded in 1976 by the late Govindappa Venkatswamy, or "Dr. V" as he is commonly known, Aravind has grown from one hospital to a network of nine, with more than 4,000 beds and 40 primary eye centers." Read more.

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