LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) has opened a new eye care centre named ‘Shirin, Etian & Tara Brown Eye Centre’ at its Gullapalli Pratibha Rao Campus in Kismatpur near Himayat Sagar. The centre was inaugurated by T Harish Rao, Minister of Finance, Health, Medical & Family Welfare, Government of Telangana. Along with the eye care centre, Rao also inaugurated LVPEI’s ‘Mobile Advanced Eye Diagnostic Unit’ dedicated to the service of rural areas of Telangana.

The ‘Shirin, Etian & Tara Brown Eye Centre’ is LVPEI’s Satellite Urban Tertiary Centre in Hyderabad. The first floor of the centre has the state-of-the-art and comprehensive surgical facility. Home care will be provided to people in and around the areas of Rajendra Nagar, Gachibowli and extending into the outskirts of the Vikarabad district. Services are provided free of cost to those in need, irrespective of the complexity of care needed. 

‘Pashyantu’ is LVPEI’s mobile advanced eye diagnostic unit that brings high-end eye diagnostic equipment for testing complicated eye conditions into the purview of rural secondary centres. The mobile van will visit LVPEI’s secondary eye care centres in the districts of Adilabad, Siddipet, Siricilla, Rangareddy, and Nagarkurnool periodically, making advanced eye diagnostic services accessible and affordable to the communities there right at their doorsteps.