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Dear Murali & Sridhar,
A very good news to all of you in the Sankara Family. Kindly share the news with all SEF Family members.
“FICCI Health Care Excellence Award 2010 – Towards Innovative and Inclusive Health Care” was awarded to Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India under the Category “Private Sector Hospital with more than 100 beds” and the Award was given “For taking health care to the masses”
In a well organized Award Ceremony in Delhi at Le Meridien on Monday the 6th of September 2010, the Award was handed over by Honorable Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India Sri. Dinesh Trivedi in the presence of Sri Kamal Hassan, the renowned Artist. On behalf of all of you, I received the Award in Delhi. Dr. Kaushik Murali has earlier done a very great job. When the short listed hospitals were invited by FICCI to present before the Panel of Jury, Dr. Kaushik had represented our Institution and he could very well impress on them by giving the facts and figures.
15 different categories of Awards were given on that day and the Award for taking Health Care to the Masses was rightly given to Sankara Eye Care Institutions India. The Rainbow programme of the Institution which has so far screened over 40 Lakhs of children for undetected visual defects in different parts of the country was chosen for this prestigious award.
Along with FICCI the Quality Council of India supported the Award Ceremony, the Ernst & Young were the Official Tabulators and NDTV Profit was the Electronic Media Partner. An eminent panel of jury headed by Sri Lahotte, Former Chief Justice of Supreme Court went through the applications to arrive at the final verdict.
Honorable Minister was all praise for the good work being done by Sankara Eye Care Institutions India. He made a request that the Institution should share its expertise for the benefit of all other States in India. In his address he requested that Hospitals who have received Awards for their excellence in Health Care Delivery should also come forward to atleast treat 10% of poor patients free of cost. He was pleasantly surprised when I informed him that Sankara Eye Care Institutions have a unique 80:20 model where in 80% of the beneficiaries are the rural poor who receive totally free eye care and the balance 20% are the affluent and middle income patients, who pay for their treatment thereby cross subsidizing the free eye care to the masses. Sankara’s model is a unique replicable and sustainable model.
Mr. Kamal Hassan recollected his long association with the Institution, especially the Sankara Eye Bank and the awareness programmes conducted in 80’s and 90’s to propagate the concept of Eye Donation.
For the Coimbatore Head Quartered Sankara Eye Care Institutions, India with 8 Hospitals in different states, it is yet another fitting recognition and a morale booster.
Dr. R.V. R
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