Download - Global Sight Network So One Million Eyes See Again Photograph by Karl Grobl Implementation Strategy
Our goal
To engage at least 100 eye hospitals
to perform at least
one million additional surgeries annually
by 2015.
Our purpose
• Expand high quality, high volume, sustainable eye care services available to 200 million people
• Strengthen Seva’s Global Sight Network to mentor partner hospitals through high- performance hospital management and outreach
• Bring services to more women and girls
Global Sight Network Partners
Aravind – Madurai, IndiaSNC – Chitrakoot, IndiaNetra (NNNV) – West Bengal, IndiaAl Noor – Egypt
LV Prasad – Hyderabad, IndiaVisualiza – GuatemalaKCCO – Tanzania Lumbini – Nepal
*More to be announced
Partner Hospitals
Affiliates
Seva Offices
Prospect Hospitals
Partner Selection
• Demonstrated commitment to support scale-up of sight services in their regions
• Affiliated with an eye hospital that is a model for training and development
Partner Selection
• Based on founding organizations’ desire to: – Enhance service delivery
– Improve their own institutions
– Assist other hospitals to become sustainable
Goal by 2015:100 hospitals
1 million more surgeries annually
ThroughHigh Quality, High
Volume, SustainableOphthalmic
Service Delivery
Global Sight Network Framework
Formal Training
• Receive postgraduate clinical training– Ophthalmology– Ophthalmic Nursing and Assistance
• Receive training for managing hospitals– Operations Management & IT– Community Outreach
Advising & Mentoring• Service development and advising to local
and regional eye hospitals
• Experienced personnel mentor other hospitals in sustainability models– Amplifies the number of high-quality, high-
efficiency eye care hospitals
Local Research• Conduct research to assess regional eye
health needs of the population– Clinical and Public Health
• Evaluations of hospital performance
• Publish findings to advance blindness prevention and treatment
Libraries & IT
• Create and maintain a resource center with library resources at Network hospitals– Online and print medical libraries– Web-based benchmarking – Telemedicine– Distance learning
Regional Capacity Development
• To support the Network, Seva will provide– Infrastructure (classrooms, etc.)– Equipment (computers, database, etc.)
• For regional personnel, Seva will– Train personnel to execute core functions– Support personnel to further knowledge
Advocacy & Goodwill• Advocate eye care service delivery
spanning from local to national levels
• Community outreach– Increase eye care & jobs for women & girls
• Help to ensure needs for– Supply chain security & political support– Networking with local & global medical
societies
Results• 26 million to be screened for eye health
• 2.6 million to receive sight restoring surgery (1.6 million being women and girls)
• 8 million to receive corrective eyeglasses
• 200 Million able to access quality eye care
• Millions of women and girls attend school, return to work and/or care for their families
Who We Are• For 30 years, Seva has been a leader of
sustainable healthcare and development community programs
• Seva and Global Sight Network hospitals performed over 500,000 cataract surgeries and screened 3 million people for eye health last year
• For more info, go to www.seva.org/cgi