The Sankara Nethralaya Academy (a unit of Medical Research Foundation, Chennai) is a forerunner and leader in the area of imparting healthcare and health management technology and draws its strength from its parent organizations, Sankara Nethralaya, the Medical Research Foundation and Vision Research Foundation, a State of the Art Research Facility.
Sankara Nethralaya, meaning “The Temple of the Eye”, is a leading super specialty institution for ophthalmic care in India and was founded in 1978 as a clinical arm of the Medical Research Foundation; it is a charitable, not-for-profit institution, located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Sankara Nethralaya has grown tremendously since its inception— thanks to the unconditional and generous support received from all quarters of society — and has gained international excellence for its high quality and affordable eye care services. Its goals include providing quality ophthalmic care at affordable costs to paying patients, free eye care to indigent patients, high level teaching and training initiatives to create an army of capable eye care professionals to combat blindness affecting the population of India. Today, the institute has over 90 eye care professionals examining around 1,500 patients and performing around 125 surgeries every day.
The objective of the Sankara Nethralaya Academy is to create highly knowledgeable and skilled professionals conversant with every area of healthcare and hospital management, to meet the increasing demand for competent professionals in this segment.
Healthcare management is emerging as a boom industry, thanks to myriad factors like increasing health awareness among the general public, a disturbing increase in lifestyle and environment related ailments and debilities and the recent entry of corporate entities into the domain of healthcare. |