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Dr.Agarwal's Eye Hospital India
About the Hospital

Dr.Agarwal`s Eye Hospital Limited has been promoted by Dr.J.Agarwal and his family members. The above company was incorporated in 1994, though the entire family has been in the profession of providing total eye care solutions for almost five decades prior to this, through various private limited company and partnership firms, owned by the family members. The Hospital has always been at the forefront of every medical advancements in the field of Ophthalmic care in the world and has several firsts to its credit. The Hospital is engaged in conducting continuous training and research and development programs and has over a period, developed an excellent team of highly skilled Ophthalmic specialists and surgeons, to assist in its growth plans.

The Hospital, after notching up an impressive success in TamilNadu, Anthra Pradesh and Rajasthan, is embarking on a major expansion program to increase its footprint to other parts of the country and renovation of its flagship facility at Chennai. Executive Summary

* State of the art world class One Stop Super Specialty Hospital for complete eye care solutions. * Promoted by the Internationally renowned Dr.J.Agarwal & family, with decades of experience in providing total eye care solutions. * Recognised as one of the major eye centers of the world at the XXVI International Congress of Ophthalmology, Singapore - 1990. * Has several creditable achievements such as Micro Phakonit Cataract Surgery, Zyoptix treatment for correction of Myopia, Hypermetropia and astigmatism and Aberropia corrective treatment, Aberropia (a new refractive entity), Airpump technique (to remove surge during       phacoemulsification), No Anesthesia Cataract Surgery. * Highly skilled and motivated team of Ophthalmologists and Surgeons, to support the core team. Successful expansion to states such as       Tamilnadu, Andrapradesh, Rajasthan and Mauritius. Proposed expansion to Mauritius. * The Hospital and its promoters are recipients of several International Awards like Barraquer Award by Keratomileusis Study Group and Kelman Award by the International Hellenic Society of Cataract & Refractive surgery for excellence in eye care surgery. * The Company is the only listed eye care hospital in the country and only one of the two consistently profit making and dividend paying listed hospital companies in the Country ( other one being Apollo Hospitals Ltd).

'''The People  Dr. J. Agarwal F.I.C.S., D.O.M.S., F.O.R.C.E., Founder & Chairman, Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital Ltd. ''' Dr.J.Agarwal, Founder & Chairman Received Padma Bhushan Award

Conferred the prestigious "The Life Time Achievement Award"

Dr.J.Agarwal F.I.C.S., D.O.M.S., F.O.R.C.E., honoured with the "Life Time Achievement Award", by the prestigious All India Ophthalmological Society in the year 2001 and by Tamilnadu Ophthalmic Association in 2002, started his career in ophthalmology in a humble way, way back in 1957. Today, Dr.J.Agarwal stands tall as the chairman of the coveted Dr.Agarwal's eye hospital - the only hospital in the world, built in the shape of an eye, listed as a Major Eye Centre of the World by the International congress of ophthalmology and has found a place in the Ripley's Believe it or not.

He was able to bring about Custom Duty Exemption for Sight Saving Instruments by the Govt. of India in 1988 and this saw a new horizon emerging on the scenario of Indian Ophthalmology. Now our eye surgeons implant lenses without having to pay the duty for microscopes, IOLs, lasers and other sight saving equipment. This Custom Duty Exemption was not given to any other branch of Medicine. Dr.Agarwal epitomises dedication and devotion and his heart for the poor brethren, is unparallelled. He has carved a niche for himself by establishing an organisation called Eye Research Centre in 1978, through which he has done yeoman service for the rural poor blind. His thirst towards the eradication of blindness has virtually blinded him to everything but ophthalmology.

He was the president of All India Ophthalmological Society during it's golden jubilee year in 1992. Not liking to limit himself only with treatment, he widened his horizon by sharing his and other stalwart's knowledge with the fellow doctors by conducting various education and CME programs.

He has conducted many conferences not only in India but also abroad. Infact he was the man behind the legendary meeting of 6th Afro Asian Congress of Ophthalmology in 1976. Special mention has to be made of his association with Dr.Hudson Silva and Sri Lanka Eye Bank which goes back to early 70's. He was one of the earliest to receive eyes from Colombo. He was also one of the first to propagate eye donation in India in a big way. * About 25 books have been come out from this institution for the benefit of Ophthalmologists. These books are published internationally by Slack Incorporated, Highlights of Ophthalmology and Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers in India.

 (Mrs.) T. Agarwal F.I.C.S., D.O.M.S.(Lon)., F.O.R.C.E.  Founder & Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal's Eye Hospital

Honored with Bharathiya Mahila Award

This doyen lady is the pioneer in India in Refractive Keratoplasty. She heads the Corneal Unit and has performed a vast number of Corneal Graftings. She was trained at INSTITUTO BARRAQUER DE AMERICA, BOGOTA, COLUMBIA. She in collaboration with her husband Dr.J.Agarwal, has written two books namely "Vitreous Surgery" and "Care of Eyes". She was the first to perform Refractive Keratoplasty using the Barraquers Cryolathe. She was awarded the P.Siva Reddy Gold Medal by the All India Ophthalmalogical Society for her paper on "Refractive Keratoplasty". She has presented a number of papers in national and international conferences.

'''Prof. Amar Agarwal M.B.B.S. ; M.S. ; F.R.C.S. ; F.R.C.Ophth [Lon] ''' Chairman Scientific Committee: Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society, INDIA. Chairman Cum Managing Director (CMD): Dr.Agarwal's Eye Hospital Ltd.,Chennai

Prof.Amar Agarwal is the pioneer of Phakonit which is Phako with a Needle Incision Technology. This technique became popularized as Bimanual phaco, Microincision cataract surgery (MICS) or Microphaco. He is the first to remove cataracts through a 0.7 mm tip with the technique called Microphakonit. He has also discovered No anesthesia cataract surgery and FAVIT a new technique to remove dropped nuclei. The air pump which was a simple idea of using an aquarium fish pump to increase the fluid into the eye in bimanual phaco and co-axial phaco has helped prevent surge. This built the basis of various techniques of forced infusion for small incision cataract surgery. He was also the first to use trypan blue for staining epiretinal membranes and publishing the details in his 4 volume textbook of ophthalmology. He has also discovered a new refractive error called Aberropia. He has also been the first to do a combined surgery of microphakonit (700 micron cataract surgery) with a 25 gauge vitrectomy in the same patient thus having the smallest incisions possible for cataract and vitrectomy. He is also the first surgeon to implant a new mirror telescopic IOL (LMI) for patients suffering from age related macular degeneration. He has also been the first in the world to implant a Glued IOL. In this a PC IOL is fixed in an eye without any capsules using fibrin glue. The Malyugin ring for small pupil cataract surgery was also modified by him as the Agarwal modification of the Malyugin ring for miotic pupil cataract surgeries with posterior capsular defects. Dr.Agarwal’s eye hospital has also done for the first time an Anterior segment transplantation in a 4 month old child with anterior staphyloma.Prof.Amar Agarwal has received many awards for his work done in ophthalmology most significant being the BARRAQUER AWARD and the KELMAN AWARD.His videos have won many awards at the film festivals of ASCRS, AAO and ESCRS. He has also written more than 50 books which have been published in various languages- English, Spanish and Polish. He also trains doctors from all over the world in his center on phaco, bimanual phaco, lasik and retina. He heads Dr.Agarwals group of eye hospitals which has 27 eye hospitals. He is also Professor of Ophthalmology at Ramachandra Medical College in Chennai, India. He can be contacted at- dragarwal@vsnl.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Dr. Athiya Agarwal MD.,(PATH), F.R.S.H.,(Lon), D.O.

She is one of the leading Anterior Segment surgeon and Ocular Pathlogist in India. She was trained in Ophthalmology and Pathology in the world famous Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, under Professor A.Garner and by Dr.Bert Glaser in USA. She has presented a number of papers at various national and international conferences. She is involved in the activities of the All India Opthalmological society and conducts training programmes for the post graduate students in modern surgical procedures. She is incharge of the research activities of the hospital.

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