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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